San Diego police arrested a married couple in connection with the death of their former landlord, days after she was flung from the hood of a moving vehicle they were driving, a homicide lieutenant said Thursday.
Cory Skellion, 27, was arrested on suspicion of murder and taken into custody during a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon in Clairemont Mesa. A few hours earlier, police located his 25-year-old wife on Harbor Drive and arrested her on suspicion of being an accessory to murder.
Just after 8 p.m. Friday, someone called 911 to report that a woman had been hit by a car at Imperial Avenue and 45th Street in the Mountain View neighborhood, Lt. Jud Campbell said in a news release. Paramedics took the woman to a hospital.
The initial police investigation indicated that the victim, a 32-year-old woman, had been clinging to the hood of a van as it drove down the street, Campbell said. The driver made an “evasive maneuver,” throwing the woman to the road. The van took off.
The woman died the next day. Homicide detectives took over the investigation and soon learned that immediately before the woman was hurt, she’d been involved in an altercation with a married couple who had previously rented a house from her. That altercation happened on Jamul Avenue, near Ocean View Avenue.
“During the confrontation, the suspects bumped the victim with a van they were driving,” Campbell said.
He said the victim grabbed the hood, and Skellion drove off as she held on.
The woman apparently held onto the van’s hood for more than half a mile before she was flung onto the ground, police said.
Skellion is being held without bail, and jail records indicate his arraignment in San Diego Superior Court is slated for Friday. His wife, Brooklyn Broadway, did not appear to be in jail custody as of Thursday.
