โ€˜Justice Will be Served': Family Speaks After Cold Case Arrest

Guillermo Gonzalez-Nunez is accused of killing Willie Clark Jr. in a 2006 shooting at a bar in San Diego, then fleeing to Mexico

Willie Clark Jr.'s  family has been waiting more than a decade for justice.

Clark was murdered April 3, 2006 just outside a bar on Hollister Street in south San Diego. The bar is no longer there, but the pain of losing Willie has never gone.

โ€œWe still hear my dad's voice, his laugh. This has all been one big dream. A bad dream,โ€ Clarkโ€™s son Julius told NBC 7.โ€ He was shot five times in the lower torso while his back was turned.โ€

Police said suspect Guillermo Gonzalez-Nunez shot and killed Clark after a fight broke out at La Vuelta Bar.

Officers said Nunez also beat another man with a gun and other patrons before fleeing to Mexico.

โ€œI consider him beyond being a monster,โ€ Julius' mother Mary Lopez said. โ€œHe took...a big part of me. In my heart I want justice."

The Clarks prayed every day that their father's murderer would be caught, but justice did not come quickly.

Last Friday, just over 10 years after Clarkโ€™s murder, Mexican authorities turned over Guillermo Gonzalez-Nunez to U.S. Marshals who took him into custody.

The Clarks said they forgive the suspect, but they will never forget what he did. 

โ€œHe needs to pay for what he did because my kids are paying every day because they don't have a father,โ€ Lopez said.

Gonzalez-Nunez was booked into San Diego Central Jail for Murder, Attempted Murder and Assault with a weapon. The Clark family said they will be at his arraignment on Tuesday.

"God bless you, but justice will be served believe that," Julius Clark said of Gonzalez-Nunez. โ€œWeโ€™re going to be all right." 

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