Police say they now know who killed a man and dumped the body near Benicia’s Lake Herman

BENICIA — Police here have arrested a suspect in the killing of a man whose body was dumped and set on fire near Lake Herman last month.

The arrest of 39-year-old Marquis Davis, announced Thursday by a Solano County Sheriff’s news release, occurred just one day after the burned body of Damarrea Neal, 29, was discovered by fire crews near the Lake Herman Recreation Area in unincorporated Benicia. Davis was arrested in Emeryville driving the victim’s car, which contained firearms and other evidence linking Davis to the killing...