{"id":142816,"date":"2026-01-21T07:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142816\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T07:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:42:12","slug":"police-arrest-man-woman-in-grant-hill-shooting-deaths-of-another-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/142816\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest man, woman in Grant Hill shooting deaths of another couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Grant-Hill-Crime-Scene.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Grant-Hill-Crime-Scene.jpg\" alt=\"Crime scene in Grant Hill\" class=\"wp-image-364112\"  \/><\/a>The crime scene in Grant Hill on Monday morning. (Photo by Adrian Childress\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police<\/a> on Tuesday announced the arrest of a man and woman suspected in the double-homicide Sunday of another couple in Grant Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a statement that the two couples knew each other, and the suspects fled after the shooting early Sunday morning in the 100 block of 27th Street.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects were detained by the Border Patrol at the San Ysidro Port of Entry as they attempted to re-enter the United States later Sunday morning. Identified as Princess Perez, 25, and Ramses \u201cRex\u201d Morales, 21, the two were booked into jail on two counts of murder each.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the two victims were dating, and had been in a  dispute with the suspects, one of whom was the former girlfriend of the male victim.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, Ruben Chavez, 31, and Evelyn Virgen, 28, were found lying on 27th Street with bullet wounds. Officers administered CPR, but neither survived.<\/p>\n<p>Virgen\u2019s three young children were found unharmed in a car nearby. The three were taken into protective custody.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Homicide Unit at (619) 531-2293 or San Diego County Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crime scene in Grant Hill on Monday morning. (Photo by Adrian Childress\/Times of San Diego) San Diego&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2590,15699,66222,74,76,75,985],"class_list":["post-142816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-arrests","tag-double-murder","tag-grant-hill","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142816","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=142816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}