San Diego police identify juvenile suspect in 2021 Bay Terraces homicide

SAN DIEGO — San Diego police have identified a suspect in a 2021 homicide that left a 23-year-old man dead in Bay Terraces.

SDPD’s identification of a suspect came more than four years after Reginald Mitchell’s body was discovered inside a parked vehicle near Casey Street and Appian Drive.

On July 21, 2021, officers responded to a report of a suspicious car emitting a foul odor. Upon arrival, patrol officers found Mitchell’s body inside. Witnesses reported Mitchell had been living in his car in the neighborhood for months, though no one saw the shooting. Residents said they heard what sounded like gunshots in the days leading up to the discovery…

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