SAN DIEGO - Border Patrol agents announced Monday that they apprehended a Mexican fugitive wanted in connection with a homicide in Los Angeles.

Guadalupe Torres-Rangel, 41, was with four other Mexican nationals in a remote area near Dulzura about four miles north of the border when the group was spotted about 12:30 p.m. Sunday, a Border Patrol spokesman said. The agents determined that all five had entered the country illegally and took them into custody.

As the men were being processed, agents found that Torres-Rangel had an outstanding felony warrant, the spokesman said. He was handed over to the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and is awaiting extradition to Los Angeles.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department's Web site, Torres-Rangel was wanted for murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit extortion in a 2007 gang-related incident that left a 23-day-old baby dead and a man injured.

LAPD investigators said that gang members had been targeting and extorting street vendors in the MacArthur Park area. A man was standing with his girlfriend selling items on the street when assailants approached and shot him and the baby in the chest. The man survived the shooting.