Anaheim police have arrested a Cudahy man in the shooting of a woman who died inside her car, authorities said Saturday.
Detectives arrested 18-year-old Jerry Gutierrez on Friday on suspicion of murder, according to an Anaheim Police Department statement.
Officers responded just after 8 p.m. Tuesday to a call of shots fired at Cypress and Vine streets, Sgt. Matt Sutter said. Another call of a car crash came in simultaneously in the 700 block of north Vine Street, about a half-mile away, Sutter said.
When officers arrived on scene they found the driver of the car that crashed had suffered gunshot wounds. She was pronounced dead at the scene, Sutter said. When the officers went back to the scene of the shots fired, they found evidence of a shooting and “put two and two together” to determine the victim was shot and drove a short distance before crashing, Sutter added.
The victim was identified as 48-year-old Charlene Lynn Zuazo of Anaheim, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Office.
No further information was immediately available.