Suspect arrested for death of NRN writer

Police have arrested a 21-year-old New York man for the murder of Michael Schrader, the book editor and former copyeditor of Nation’s Restaurant News.

Schrader, aged 68, had retired here in 2005 after working for NRN for 20 years. He continued to review books for the publication as a contributing editor.

Luis Fernando Ortiz has confessed to killing and then robbing Schrader, an acquaintance from New York, at about 9 a.m. on New Year’s Day, according to the B