Man Arrested In Bay Area In Fatal San Diego Shooting

SAN DIEGO, CA — A 19-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting a San Diego man in June was arrested Monday in Hayward, authorities said.

Nasir Hampton was arrested without incident in the 24100 block of Amador Street in Hayward by members of the U.S. Marshals Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force, according to the San Diego Police Department.

Hampton was booked into Alameda County Jail on a murder charge, and extradition proceedings have begun, police said.

The shooting was reported at 10:23 p.m. June 12 in the 4500 block of Alvarado Canyon Road in San Diego, outside the Union Grantville apartment complex near the Grantville Trolley Station.

Officers found evidence of a shooting but no victim. At about the same time, police received a report of a vehicle collision in the 6900 block of Mission Gorge Road.

Officers responding to the crash found 19-year-old Deandre Towers of San Diego in the back seat with an apparent gunshot wound. The driver, who was not injured, told officers he was taking Towers to a hospital after picking him up at the Union Grantville apartments, police said.

Towers was taken to a local trauma center, where he later died.

The department's Homicide Unit determined Hampton was the suspect and that he had fled San Diego, police said.

Anyone with information was asked to contact the Homicide Unit at 619-531-2293 or San Diego County Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.