SAN MARCOS — Law enforcement has arrested a 19-year-old man suspected of shooting and killing a teenager in San Marcos in May, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday.
San Marcos resident Adrian Francisco Ramirez was arrested on Oct. 25 by the U.S. Marshals San Diego Fugitive Task Force at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, five months after the fatal shooting on the evening of May 15. He was charged with the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Isaac Shekhayem of San Marcos.
Shekhayem, a student at Twin Oaks High School, was standing with a group of people in a parking lot along Los Vallecitos Boulevard around 11:30 p.m. on May 15, when a vehicle pulled over and an individual exited and fired several rounds toward the group.
Shekhayem was struck by a bullet and taken to the hospital by two companions, where he died shortly afterward. An autopsy determined the cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the head and the manner of death to be a homicide, according to the sheriff’s office.
Ramirez was booked into the San Diego Central Jail and arraigned on Tuesday afternoon in Vista Superior Court.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Homicide Unit at (858) 285-6330 or after hours at (858) 565-5200 or remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477.
