A 40-year-old man, Justin Navarro, turned himself in to Camarillo police Tuesday night in connection with the fatal shooting of a 36-year-old man, Gilberto Aquilera, at a Somis nursery.
Aquilera was taken to an area hospital in critical condition. However, evidence says the shooter and the victim did know each other.
More than eight months before he was arrested, Navarro filed court papers alleging the man he shot was harassing him and his fiancée. Allegedly, Aquilera pulled a knife on Navarro and said if he were ever arrested, he would kill Navarro when he got out of jail.
Navarro then requested a restraining order against Aquilera in May, claiming the younger man had violated an earlier stay-away agreement.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital in Thousand Oaks due to a shotgun blast to the abdomen.
The shooter, Navarro, was initially booked into Ventura County jail on a misdemeanor warrant for being under the influence of a controlled substance and was being held in lieu of $5,000 bail, but shortly after was charged with the homicide.
The motive for the killing remained unclear Wednesday. All that is known is Aquilera was Navarro's fiancée's daughter's boyfriend for six or seven years.
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