Man Wounded in Moorpark Home Dies

A man shot in a reported dispute over a video game died Thursday after his family removed him from life support, authorities said.

Jason Weaver, 26, died at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks at 11:45 a.m., after a machine that was keeping him alive was turned off 45 minutes earlier, said hospital spokeswoman Kris Carraway-Bowman.

Weaver, a car detailer who lived with his wife and three children in Granada Hills, was gunned down shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday in the garage of his father-in-law’s Moorpark home, authorities said. The father-in-law is Sgt. James N. Myers of the Los Angeles Police Department’s Devonshire Division.

Weaver suffered multiple gunshot wounds from a .38 caliber handgun. One bullet entered his neck and went into his skull, authorities said.

It was the first killing in the city in more than three years.

“It is really tragic and a very unfortunate incident. It just proves that as safe a community as Moorpark is and as proud as we are of our public safety record, no community is immune and totally insulated to these incidents,” Mayor Patrick Hunter said.

Weaver’s brother-in-law, Paul Myers, 30, remained in jail Thursday night without bail on suspicion of attempted murder and being an Army deserter, authorities said.

An arraignment is scheduled today, during which a murder charge is expected to be filed, said Eric Nishimoto, a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.

Myers had been staying at his parents’ house since allegedly leaving his Army post more than a month ago, authorities said.

Myers’ military assignment was not immediately available but local authorities confirmed that a federal warrant from the Army had been issued for his arrest.

Detectives Thursday were still piecing together the events that led to the shooting, but are investigating reports that Weaver and Myers were standing in the garage arguing about video games when the shots were fired.

Neighbors said they heard four or five shots and then allegedly heard Myers screaming about having to kill Weaver in self-defense. Myers was arrested at the scene of the shooting.

Deputy county coroner Mitch Breese declined to specify the number of gunshot wounds and would only say that an autopsy is scheduled for this morning.

Myers’ mother, Bonnie, and at least two of her grandchildren were home when the shooting occurred, neighbors said.

Police detectives interviewed Myers late into the night in Thousand Oaks before the suspect was transferred to the main jail in Ventura for booking. Nishimoto refused to disclose details of that interview or to say whether Myers’ family had come to see him in jail.

Sheriff’s Capt. Kelly Fadler said detectives recovered a .38 caliber handgun at the scene, but authorities refused to say who owns it. Two additional boxes of evidence were also taken from the house but authorities would not comment on exactly what was seized.