Police in Alabama and Southern California say two people have been arrested in connection with the killing of a man found dead inside an apartment in Murrieta, California, last month.On the morning of Jan. 13, an officer with the Murrieta Police Department responded to a call at the Arbors at California Oaks apartments, where a man’s body was found. The death was ruled a homicide.Detectives arrested 40-year-old Ignacia Perkins, identified by police as the victim’s ex-girlfriend, in Murrieta on Jan. 29 and booked her into the Robert Presley Detention Center, authorities said. She is charged with murder, murder for financial or other consideration, and criminal conspiracy to commit murder.>> YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Community coverage from WVTM 13That same day, the Birmingham Police Department Special Enforcement Team, working with Murrieta police, arrested 43-year-old James Lawrence Petri in Birmingham’s Bush Hills neighborhood.Petri faces the same charges as Perkins, police say. He is being held in the Jefferson County Jail pending extradition to California.The investigation is ongoing.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —
Police in Alabama and Southern California say two people have been arrested in connection with the killing of a man found dead inside an apartment in Murrieta, California, last month.
On the morning of Jan. 13, an officer with the Murrieta Police Department responded to a call at the Arbors at California Oaks apartments, where a man’s body was found. The death was ruled a homicide.
Detectives arrested 40-year-old Ignacia Perkins, identified by police as the victim’s ex-girlfriend, in Murrieta on Jan. 29 and booked her into the Robert Presley Detention Center, authorities said. She is charged with murder, murder for financial or other consideration, and criminal conspiracy to commit murder.
Murrieta Police Department
>> YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Community coverage from WVTM 13
That same day, the Birmingham Police Department Special Enforcement Team, working with Murrieta police, arrested 43-year-old James Lawrence Petri in Birmingham’s Bush Hills neighborhood.
Birmingham Police Department
Petri faces the same charges as Perkins, police say. He is being held in the Jefferson County Jail pending extradition to California.
The investigation is ongoing.