A 61-year-old man suspected in the April shooting of a woman in downtown San Jose was taken into custody in North Carolina last month, police said.
The woman was found with a gunshot wound in the area of ​​North Fourth Street and East St. John Street on April 26 around 9 p.m.
When police arrived, she was not conscious or breathing, so life-saving measures were taken. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
She was identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner’s Office as 54-year-old Sonji Conerly.
An investigation led detectives to identify San Jose resident Myron Barrier as a suspect and they obtained a warrant for his arrest.
Barrier was arrested by U.S. Marshals on May 21 in Greensboro, North Carolina and booked into the Guilford County Jail.
On June 21, San Jose Police Department detectives brought Barrier back to San Jose, where he was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of murder.
Police have not released any further information about the shooting.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Sgt. Van Den Broeck and Detective Estantino of the San Jose Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 3829@sanjoseca.gov and/or 4339@sanjoseca.gov or (408) 277-5283.
