{"id":204101,"date":"2025-09-06T04:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204101\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T04:43:12","slug":"police-arrest-suspect-id-man-shot-dead-while-sitting-in-parked-car-in-miramar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/204101\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspect, ID man shot dead while sitting in parked car in Miramar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/county3.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/county3.jpg\" alt=\"San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office at the County Operations Center. (killed)\" class=\"wp-image-80697\" style=\"width:810px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>San Diego County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office at the County Operations Center. (File photo by Ken Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>Police on Friday identified the man shot dead while sitting in a parked car in broad daylight in the Miramar area and announced the arrest of a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Markus Vega, 57, was sitting in the front passenger seat of a parked vehicle in the 8600 block of Production Avenue, near Camino Santa Fe, at about 4 p.m. Wednesday when he was shot, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics took Vega to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Lt. Chris Tivanian said.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Hendry, 42, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murdering Vega. <\/p>\n<p>Police have not disclosed what led investigators to identify Hendry as the suspect or revealed a motive in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the shooting was encouraged to call the homicide unit at (619) 531-2293 or San Diego County Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.<\/p>\n<p>City News Service contributed to this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office at the County Operations Center. (File photo by Ken Stone\/Times of San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":204102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,4221,112633,112634,112562,3549,48109,7264,101,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-204101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-homicide","12":"tag-joseph-hendry","13":"tag-markus-vega","14":"tag-miramar","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-police","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-shooting","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115155527628307902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}