Police have arrested a man accused of shooting at two people at a Chula Vista bus stop.
Suspect Andre Christopher Vega, 25, was arrested at his Imperial Beach home late Saturday. He has been booked into jail on eight charges, including two attempted first degree murder charges.
The arrest comes after a prolongued SWAT standoff at a storage facility, where Chula Vista Police Department (CVPD) Lt. Lon Turner said officials searched 905 units at the self-storage business, A Storage Place, located at 605 Anita St. and Broadway.
SWAT officials were called to the storage unit facility as police officers searched for a man who allegedly shot at a group of men after an argument at a nearby bus stop.
Officials spent seven hours searching the storage facility, but did not find him.
According to police, the suspect fired on three men earlier in the morning, at around 6:25 a.m., at a bus stop in the 2500 block of Main Street and Broadway.
Chula Vista Police said the suspect got into some kind of argument with another man at the bus stop, pulled out a gun and fired shots.
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Turner said two men were shot in the lower body and one of the men was pistol-whipped in the hands. A third man at the bus stop was uninjured. The two victims and the uninjured man work together at a tortilla factory, police said.
One of the victims wounded in the shooting managed to run to a nearby AM/PM gas station for help, police said. A witness also ran to a 24-Hour Fitness gym to report the shooting.
The suspect took off running westbound and police launched a search.
Fiol told NBC 7 he and his wife were about to enter the storage facility when he saw the suspect frantically running near the business.
He and his wife have a storage unit at the facility that they frequently visit on weekends to get items to sell at a booth they run at a local swap meet.
But Saturday morning, Fiol said things were different.
“I saw a male with a gun, which I thought was extremely awkward,” Fiol explained.
Heavy police activity surrounded three locations: the site of the shooting at the bus stop on Main Street, the AM/PM gas station where the victim ran to get help and the self-storage facility.
Police said the two victims were taken to local hospitals with lower body injuries. They are expected to be released Saturday, according to police.
