This is a video image of 20-year-old Diego Martinez who has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting that occurred in Oceanside, August 30, 2012, at the intersection of Calle Solimar and Calle Mariposa.
This picture features, on the right, the 47-year-old man who was fatally shot in Oceanside Thursday, August 30, 2012. On the left is his girlfriend. The woman in the middle has been identified as the man’s mother.OCEANSIDE (CNS) - A man was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 47-year-old man and the wounding of the victim's 49-year-old girlfriend in Oceanside early Thursday, police said.
A woman was reported screaming for help at Calle Solimar and Calle Mariposa around 12:20 a.m., according to Oceanside police Lt. Leonard Mata.
Police found a wounded woman sitting in a truck that was stopped and facing oncoming traffic east of the intersection. A man was lying in a driveway in the 300 block of Calle Mariposa, across the street, Mata said.
Medics took the woman to a hospital, and police said she was expected to survive. The man died at the scene.
The victims' names have not been released.
"The investigation led officers to the home of (a) possible shooting suspect," according to a police statement.
The suspect, Diego Martinez, 20, was arrested without incident after officers obtained a search warrant and surrounded his home in the 4700 block of Calle Solimar, authorities said. The home is not far from the shooting scene, Mata said.
Officers recovered a rifle during the search, but it was unknown if the weapon was used in the shootings, Mata said.
Police had not established the motive for the shooting, and the relationship, if any, between the suspect and the victims is unknown, Mata said.
