A 35-year-old man was arrested early Sunday after police found a man suffering from a gunshot wound inside the Skyline-area home they shared, authorities said. The victim later died at a hospital.
Officers initially were dispatched after someone reported a gun being fired and a man walking around with a gun along Skyline Drive shortly before 8:25 a.m. As officers arrived at the scene, they learned there had been a robbery at a nearby liquor store on South Meadowbrook Drive, with someone firing a gun, San Diego police homicide Lt. Lou Maggi said.
“As they got into the area, they located a subject matching the description of the suspect” in the robbery, Maggi told OnScene.TV. The man did not follow commands to stop and went into the backyard of a nearby home on Skyline Drive, Maggi said.
A police helicopter was requested, as were SWAT officers. Officers on the helicopter spotted the man in the backyard. He had taken off his clothes and was holding a firearm, Maggi said.
“Eventually they gave orders for that man to come out and surrender,” the lieutenant said. “He did — he tossed that handgun — re-dressed and came outside and surrendered to officers.”
Police said Adrian Godinez was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.
Officers noticed a bloodstain near the front door of the home and went inside. They found a man in his 50s with at least one gunshot wound. He died later at a hospital. The victim was not identified.
Maggi said investigators believe the victim was shot inside the home around 8 a.m., shortly before Godinez allegedly went to the liquor store and fired a gun there. Police said they do not believe anything was taken from the liquor store.
Maggi declined to answer questions about whether the suspect and the victim were related but said it was believed they both lived at the home.
