{"id":531761,"date":"2026-01-21T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/531761\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:21:11","slug":"suspect-wanted-in-fatal-shooting-outside-chula-vista-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/531761\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect wanted in fatal shooting outside Chula Vista bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Suspect.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Suspect.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-364342\"  \/><\/a>Driver\u2019s license photo and security footage capture of Jacinto Diego. (Photos courtesy of Chula Vista Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>Authorities Tuesday publicly identified a fugitive suspect in the slaying of a 31-year-old man who was <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/crime\/2026\/01\/06\/police-seek-information-fatal-shooting-outside-chula-vista-bar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gunned down last month<\/a> outside a South Bay bar.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto Jacinto Diego, 47, allegedly shot Pablo Hernandez Jr. of San Diego shortly after 1:30 a.m. Dec. 28 as the victim was with a group of people in front of the drinking establishment in the 600 block of E Street in Chula Vista, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chulavistaca.gov\/departments\/police-department\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a>. Paramedics took Hernandez to a hospital, where he died four days later.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives identified Jacinto Diego as the suspected killer through \u201cnumerous\u201d witness interviews and images of his vehicle captured by an automated license-plate reader, Chula Vista police Sgt. Anthony Molina said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn arrest warrant has been issued for Jacinto Diego, and investigators believe he may have crossed the border into Mexico,\u201d Molina said.<\/p>\n<p>Police have disclosed no suspected motive for the fatal shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who might be able to help investigators track down the suspect is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdcrimestoppers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Crime Stoppers<\/a> at 888-580-8477 or contact investigators via the P3tips mobile application.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Driver\u2019s license photo and security footage capture of Jacinto Diego. (Photos courtesy of Chula Vista Police Department) Authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":531762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,45637,6397,7204,235668,235669,235670,3549,165748,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-531761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-chula-vista-police-department","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-murder-suspect","tag-p3tips","tag-pablo-hernandez-jr","tag-roberto-jacinto-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county-crime-stoppers","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115932121269718025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531761","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=531761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}