Cited for Slapping Boy, Guard Slain

An apartment security guard police had cited for slapping a 2-year-old boy was shot to death later that night after arguing with the boy’s father, authorities said.

San Diego police found Laupele Tuiloma, 24, at 9:30 p.m. Thursday with two bullet wounds in his back, police said. He was lying in the courtyard of the Kingston Estate apartments in the 200 block of Ozark Street, police spokesman Dave Cohen said.

Tuiloma was taken to Mercy Hospital, where he died at 10:38 p.m., authorities said.

Police said they want to question Keith Ronshon Carter, 24, about the shooting. Carter is the father of the 2-year-old boy that Tuiloma was cited for slapping Thursday at 5:50 p.m., Cohen said.

Police were called to the apartments about 40 minutes later to break up a fistfight between Tuiloma and Carter, San Diego police homicide Lt. Paul Ybarrondo said. During the skirmish, police sprayed Carter with Mace and he ran away, police said.

Tuiloma and Carter both live in the Southeast San Diego apartment complex where the shooting occurred, police said.