Dallas police searching for suspect in fatal shopping center shooting
DALLAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) – Police are searching for a shooting suspect who was last seen in the Plaza at Preston shopping center Friday afternoon.
Dallas police say the suspect was breaking into a car when a security guard confronted the suspect, then a fight broke out.
The suspect shot the security guard and left the area in a gold Toyota Camry.
The security guard, who has since been identified as Adalberto Santiago, 34, was taken to a local hospital where he died.
Police say the suspect's vehicle was found just before 5 p.m. Friday in a parking lot in the 2200 block of N. Cockrell Hill Road – about 12 miles away from the scene of the shooting.
CBS News Texas spoke with the family Santiago lived with, who say they were wondering where he was after his shift Friday, only to find out he wasn't coming home.
The woman he rented a room from for several years in Cedar Hill said she would call him "Max" and he often called her "Mom."
Santiago was a licensed security guard in Texas for the last decade – in fact, that's how he met his best friend, who he stayed with.
Anyone with information on the suspect or the crime is asked to contact Detective Jonequia Acrond at 214-605-4691 or email jonequia.acrond@dallaspolice.gov.
