SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The suspect in last year’s shooting that fatally injured a man in Lemon Grove has been arrested in the Midwest, authorities reported Tuesday.

Daniel Ethridge, 44, was arrested in St. Louis on Thursday on burglary charges and an arrest warrant for the March 18, 2023 murder of Gregory Moore, 39, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office. He was taken into custody in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Shortly before 10 p.m. that day, deputies responding to a report of a shooting found Moore unconscious in a vehicle at the intersection of Lemon Grove and San Miguel streets, with gunshot wounds to his body and left leg, Sheriff’s Lt. Michael Krugh said.

Paramedics took the San Diego resident to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Authorities did not disclose the suspected cause of the shooting.

Sheriff’s officials are preparing to extradite Ethridge to San Diego to stand trial in the case.

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