Two suspects arrested for 2007 shooting
Two suspects have been matched to names and one has been taken into custody for the murder of a man who was walking his girlfriend to his car in the Encanto neighborhood over two years ago, police reported Monday.
A man in an SUV took out a gun and fired it at 20-year-old Stephen Cleveland on June 9, 2007, outside his grandmother’s house located on South 65th Street near Cielo Drive, San Diego homicide Lt. Kevin Rooney reported. Cleveland and his girlfriend were leaving a dinner at his grandmother’s home when the murder took place.
Police stated that the the driver of the SUV drove up to the side of Cleveland, said something to him and then fired the gun at him multiple times. Cleveland limped and struggled to cross the street, fell down in a driveway and passed away about an hour after.
Maurice Tucker, 21, was taken into custody around 3:50 p.m. as he traveled on Imperial Avenue near 62nd Street, Rooney stated. He was transported to police headquarters and was supposed to be held at the County Jail this evening on suspicion of murder, the lieutenant stated. Another suspect in the shooting is in jail on separate charges for a different incident and is also to be charged with murder in the death of Cleveland.
Rooney refused to say the name of the second suspect and did not give details as to how authorities found the suspects.