Man Suspected Of Shooting Soldier At Welcome Home Party Surrenders
SAN BERNARDINO (CBS) — The man suspected of shooting a soldier at his welcome home party has surrendered to Chino Hills police.
Ruben Ray Jurado, 19, turned himself in shortly before 2 p.m. Monday after authorities released photos of him to the news media over the weekend. The suspected gunman was accompanied by an attorney.
San Bernardino investigators said Jurado will be booked into jail, most likely at the West Valley Detention Center.
Meanwhile, family members of Army Spec. Christopher Sullivan spent Christmas Day by the soldier's hospital bedside, hoping his condition would improve despite receiving gunshot wounds that have left him paralyzed.
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Sullivan, 22, remains in critical condition and his blood pressure was too low Sunday for doctors to perform surgery on him, his mother, Suzanne Sullivan said.
"He's on 100 percent life support right now," she said.
Sullivan, a San Bernardino native who is stationed in Fort Campbell, Ky., had been recovering the past year from injuries he received in a suicide bombing last December in Afghanistan.
Christopher Sullivan, 22, is in "extremely" critical condition, and possibly paralyzed, according to his family in a report in the San Bernardino Sun.
Sullivan was shot Friday evening.
His aunt, Theresa Marquez, told the newspaper, "He served a tour, and to come home to this, it's so unfair."
Sullivan, currently stationed in Kentucky, is a 2008 graduate of San Bernardino High School. There he played football and was on the wrestling team.
He was home on leave Friday when he was shot at his own welcome-home party in the 2800 block of Garner Avenue in San Bernardino.
Jurado reportedly got into an argument into with the victim's little brother at the party. Police say the suspect punched the brother, causing Sullivan to intervene. At that point, Jurado allegedly pulled out a gun and shot a bullet into the ceiling and a second into Sullivan's hip.
The gunman fled before police arrived.
Family members say the two brothers and Jurado went to high school together.
