Accused Child Killer Says He's Innocent

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- One of the men arrested in the 2007 deaths of a father and his 7-month-son told CBS13 on Monday that he's innocent and will take a lie detector test to prove it.

Richard Noguera was arrested by Sacramento County Sheriff's detectives on Friday in connection to the fatal shootings of Sean Aquitania Sr., 21, and his son in south Sacramento. Sean Jr. was still strapped into his car seat when he was shot in the head.

"My heart goes out to them," Noguera told CBS13's Koula Gianulias in an interview from the Sacramento County Jail. "You know, I have a child too. I'd never want to see nobody's child suffer like that. It's a terrible crime."

Noguera says he had nothing to do with the murder of baby Sean and his father when they stumbled upon a home-invasion robbery while visiting a friend's house

"Investigators say you were there at the home the day the baby was shot," Gianulias said in the interview.

"And I was not," Noguera replied. "And my lie detector test will prove it."

Facing two murder charges, Noguera says he offered to take a lie detector test last week when investigators collected a DNA sample from him. He says the only connection he has to this case is that a second suspect arrested last week, Donald Ortez-Lucero, was his roommate.

"I lived with him for maybe two months," Noguera said. "He was my neighbor. I mean, you know times was hard, we were losing our house because the market fell. And he gave me a room to rent. I mean I'm guilty because I lived in the house with him? It's ridiculous that somebody can put you in jail for just knowing somebody."

Noguera, who works in the music industry and appeared in a thriller movie filmed in Auburn earlier this year, says he doesn't match the height, weight or even the look of the suspect sketch released by the sheriff's department four years ago.

He says he deserves to be at home with his 4-month-old child and that the Aquitania family deserves justice to face the real killers in court.

"I can look at them physically in their eyes and tell them that I did not kill your child or your fiancé," he said. "I am not the killer."