Parolee Approached Officers At Stockton AM/PM Store
POSTED: 11:55 am PDT March 31, 2010
UPDATED: 6:56 pm PDT March 31, 2010
STOCKTON, Calif. -- Stockton police said a man approached officers Wednesday morning at an AM/PM store and told them he had just killed his girlfriend.
The officers detained the man, Paul Ayala, at the store on North El Dorado Street. The suspect then directed the officers to the 200 block of East Glencannon Street, where the victim was found in a back bedroom of a home.
Police said the victim wasn't breathing and was unresponsive. She was taken to St. Joseph's Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Ayala, 37, was arrested and booked on charges of murder and violation of parole.
Police said he'd been released from prison 10 days prior for having served time for domestic violence.
Neighbors say the home was a halfway house and that it had a troubled history.
"It's been a halfway house, a problem house causing problems in the neighborhood. People been trying to get it closed down and things," neighbor Paris Jordan said.
Police say Ayala knew the victim before he went to prison.
"Individuals who are perpetrating and are incarcerated and released early are still such a danger to the public as well as to their potential … loved one," Joelle Gomez from the Women's Center said.
Anyone with information on the case may call police investigators at 209-937-8323.
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