(CNN) -- Three Salvadoran gang members were arrested Monday in connection with the killing of French filmmaker Christian Poveda last June, police said.
The action brings to 28 the number of gang members arrested and accused of participating in the murder.
Poveda, who had made a documentary about a violent street gang, part of the Mara 18 gang in El Salvador, was found shot dead in the town of Tonacatepeque, about 10 miles northeast of the capital, San Salvador, on September 2.
Poveda, 52, was shot at least four times in the face, according to local reports.
Some of those arrested belong to the same gang that Poveda documented.
Salvador's national police identified the arrested individuals as Roberto de Jesus Hernandez, Jose Carlos Barahona and Rafael Alonso Parada.
According to police, the three acted as lookouts around the area where the killing took place.
Seven more suspects remain at large, police said in a statement.
Poveda's documentary, "La Vida Loca," which follows the lives of members of the Mara 18 street gang, had been screened at a handful of film festivals and was released last year.
Poveda first arrived in El Salvador in the 1980s to cover the civil war as a photojournalist. He left to report from other war zones, but returned to research and film the gangs in El Salvador.
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