Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a murder early this morning in a motor home in the Home Depot parking lot in Yucca Valley. Managing editor Tami Roleff has the latest…
A suspect is in custody following an early morning murder in the Home Depot parking lot in Yucca Valley. According to Sheriff’s Sergeant Matt Yost, an unidentified man was killed in a recreational vehicle in the parking lot about 4 a.m. Yost said the suspect fled on foot into the Paradise Valley and the open desert north of town, and that deputies detained a person of interest at the scene.
Deputies searched the desert and neighborhoods on foot, from patrol vehicles, and from a helicopter for the suspect. A deputy patrolling through the streets saw a man matching the description and pursued him behind a home in the 6400 block of Goleta. About 9:30, deputies converged on the scene and took the suspect into custody at gun point. Yost said another RV, this one in the Walmart parking lot, is possibly connected to the homicide, perhaps belonging to the suspect.
