A man suspected of fatally shooting his estranged wife following a marriage counseling session in Scripps Ranch last weekend, prompting an international manhunt, was arrested at the San Ysidro border crossing early Friday.
Jeremy Green, 40, fled to Mexico after allegedly gunning down 37-year-old Tressa Green shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday during an argument that broke out in a parking lot in the 9600 block of Business Park Avenue. She died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds to her abdomen, San Diego police said.
"Anytime that somebody murders somebody in the City of San Diego, that's a very, very serious case, and we will do everything we can to bring that person to justice," San Diego police Capt. David Nisleit said during a mid-morning news briefing outside San Diego Police Department Headquarters.
Just hours after Tressa Green was killed, a passer-by found a shotgun underneath a freeway ramp in Marian Bear Park, roughly eight miles away.
Three days after the shooting, police found Green's silver Corvette abandoned in the 700 block of East San Ysidro Boulevard.
Police personnel from various units, including homicide and criminal intelligence had been working since Saturday to develop leads, and Green was eventually tracked down in Cancun, Mexico, Nisleit said. He would not disclose how investigators determined Green's whereabouts.
Nisleit said investigators were in contact with the suspect for several days before his surrender. Green flew to Tijuana, met with Mexican authorities then was taken into U.S. custody at the San Ysidro border crossing about 1 a.m. Friday.
He was booked into San Diego Central Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder and was being held without bail pending arraignment, scheduled for Monday afternoon.
"He wanted to surrender," Nisleit said. "He just wanted to do it on his own terms, and surrender to U.S. authorities."
Tressa Green filed for divorce in April. The couple had been married since 2005 and had two children together.
Nisleit said he would not discuss a possible motive or other aspects of the active investigation.
