A man suspected of killing a Dana Point resident was arrested in San Francisco after investigators tracked the victim's car to the city, SFist reported.
Orange County sheriff's deputies were called around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday to a home near Breakers Isle and Niguel Shores Drive. Friends checking on a man there found him dead. Officials described him only as a white man in his 70s and said he had been shot several days earlier.
Deputies used automated license plate reader data to find the victim's car in San Francisco and worked with SFPD to locate it. Inside was 32-year-old Cordell Dionte Studley, along with several items authorities say link him to the killing, including a handgun.
Santa Monica police and Orange County investigators told CBS Los Angeles that Studley was also the suspect arrested in September 2023 on suspicion of assault to commit rape. In that case, police said, he broke into a woman's apartment and stood beside her bed until she woke up.
Authorities have not said what relationship, if any, Studley had with the victim.