Man Admits Killing Businessman, Leads Investigators to Gun : Crime: Victim was found dead in Fullerton home Thursday. Slaying stemmed from dispute, confessor says.

A 32-year-old Las Vegas man confessed Friday to fatally shooting a Fullerton businessman in his home, police said.

Michael Jurinske, 34, who ran a credit counseling business from his home, was found Thursday in his bed shot three times.

Acting on leads, police located Victor Young Lee, 32, at his parents’ restaurant in Torrance. He surrendered at the Fullerton police station. Lee confessed to the killing and led investigators to the gun used in the shooting, according to Lt. Tony Hernandez.

After the gun was recovered, on an embankment near the intersection of the San Diego and Harbor freeways, Lee was booked at the Fullerton City Jail on suspicion of murder. Because of an outstanding weapons warrant, he is being held without bail, police said.

The shooting grew out of a business dispute, Lee reportedly told investigators.

Jurinske’s body was found about 5:30 p.m. Thursday by his girlfriend, who had gone to visit him after work, Police Sgt. Glenn Deveny said.

Residents of the quiet community in the 2200 block of Hillview Circle, where neighbors sometimes invite one another over for dinner, described Jurinske as a reserved man who moved in about a year ago. He lived alone, and his girlfriend would visit about twice a week.

“Most of the time, he would be inside his home working,” a neighbor said, “or he’d be working on his garden.”

Court records show that Jurinske was divorced in 1987. His former wife and their 12-year-old daughter live in Texas.

From 1988 to 1990, Jurinske had been sued several times by plaintiffs alleging breach of contract, according to court records in Orange County. In one 1990 ruling, a Superior Court judge ordered Jurinske and Princeton Equity Mortgage Inc., an Orange company he presided over at the time, to pay more than $120,000.

In another order, Jurinske was ordered to pay $29,000 he owed in rent to Honeywell Inc., an Orange company that leased office space to Jurinske and his business then, J.M. Princeton Co. Inc., in the late 1980s.

Los Angeles County deed records also indicate that several properties owned by Jurinske had federal and state liens on them for failure to pay taxes. One property in Diamond Bar had a $77,173 lien, according to county records.