2 people found dead in Grant Hill, 3 young children discovered unharmed in vehicle nearby<\/a><\/p>\nOfficers arrived to find Chavez and Virgen with gunshot wounds, and despite life-saving efforts, the victims were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
According to police, officers spotted three young children \u2014 all under the age of 2 \u2014 inside a vehicle that was parked near the victims. The children, who appeared unharmed, were determined to be Virgen\u2019s, and the vehicle was registered to Virgen, police added.<\/p>\n
The children were taken into protective custody, according to police.<\/p>\n
During their investigation, SDPD Homicide Unit detectives learned Chavez and Virgen were dating and \u201cthey had both been involved in an ongoing dispute with Chavez\u2019s ex-girlfriend, 25-year-old Princess Perez, and her current boyfriend, 21-year-old Ramses \u201cRex\u201d Morales. Both Perez and Morales had been in the area when the shooting occurred but fled prior to police arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Jan. 19, at around 10:05 a.m., Morales and Perez were located at the San Ysidro Port of Entry and detained by U.S. Border Patrol as they tried to re-enter the U.S.<\/p>\n
After the pair were processed and interviewed by homicide detectives, Morales was booked into San Diego County Jail and Perez was booked into Las Colinas Detention Facility, each on two counts of murder, according to police.<\/p>\n
Police are asking anyone with information on the case to call the Homicide Unit at 619-531-2293 or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.<\/p>\n
EDITOR’S NOTE: An earlier version of this story had stated that Morales was 25 years old. SDPD sent an amended press release Tuesday afternoon correcting his age to 21 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (KGTV) \u2013 Two people were arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of a man and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[71625,71627,71628,71626,71629,74,76,51375,75,71630],"class_list":["post-142789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-evelyn-virgen","tag-grant-hill-shooting","tag-princess-perez","tag-ramses-rex-morales","tag-ruben-chavez","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-homicide","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}