A man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of his ex-fiancé in Riverside, police said Tuesday.
Riverside police were called to a home in the 11000 block of Trailrun Court Nov. 1 to check the welfare of the woman who lived there.
The woman’s son told authorities she had been having issues with her ex-fiancé and she had not been heard from that day.
Responding officers found the woman, identified as 57-year-old Pankaja Venugopal, dead from an apparent gunshot wound, police said.
Venugopal’s ex-fiancé was soon identified as 60-year-old Paul Buckner Jacobs Jr., of Compton.
He was arrested in Jurupa Valley on suspicion of murder and is being held on $1 million bail.”
Authorities did not release any further details about the crime or the arrest.