SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) - Police say they have a DNA hit that links two murders just a few blocks apart.

Police have always suspected two Santa Fe killings were connected because one victim was a homeowner who walked in on burglars in his house.

Santa Fe police believe David Martinez ran with a group of burglars while he was alive. He or someone in that group killed a man who walked in on them as they were stealing from him.

That was in February when Ethaan Boyer, 34, who was a community volunteer and owned a graphic design company, was killed inside his Santa Fe home after coming home from work.

Police have not made an arrest in that murder.

A couple of weeks later David Martinez was shot and killed just a few blocks away, the body was dumped in a neighboring park..

His brother, Felix Martinez, admitted to shooting him at their home with the help of a man police considers another serial burglar, Sam Leyba.

They have been in jail since the shooting.

Santa Fe police have been trying to link the two murders since March to solve Boyer's case.

Detectives sifted through garbage at the Martinez home and the landfill looking for evidence.

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DNA linked to two Santa Fe murders