Parolee Arrested on Suspicion of Shooting Girlfriend to Death
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Palmdale man early Saturday on suspicion of shooting his 16-year-old girlfriend to death, authorities said.
Deputies said Manuel Sanchez, a 19-year-old parolee, shot his girlfriend once in the chest at about 3:50 p.m. Friday after the couple argued in Sanchez’s living room. Nicole Inuma, of Llano, had gone to Sanchez’s house to retrieve a pager he had been using, said Deputy Patrick Hauser of the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.
After he shot her, Sanchez ran to a McDonald’s restaurant across the street from his home on 2nd Street East, deputies said. There, he put a handgun--believed to be a 32-caliber, nickel-plated revolver--inside the bed of a white compact pickup truck that was pulling away from the drive-through window and then called 911, authorities said.
That weapon has not been recovered, authorities said.
Inuma was pronounced dead at 4:20 p.m. Friday at Palmdale Community Medical Center; Sanchez was arrested shortly after midnight.
There was no information about Sanchez’s earlier conviction, Hauser said.
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