The same month court records show an injunction for protection was filed against Anderson Lee Nieves in Duval County, police say he pulled up next to his ex's vehicle and fired several shots into the passenger side, fatally striking her boyfriend.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office announced an arrest Tuesday in the Feb. 27 shooting on West Beaver Street where 33-year-old Juan Carlos Lopez was killed in front of his girlfriend, her brother and her 2-year-old child.

The girlfriend and her brother were able to identify the shooter as Nieves - who turned 34 on the day of the shooting - and an arrest warrant for murder was obtained, Lt. Steve Gallaher said.

He said authorities learned Nieves may have fled south and located him in Pinellas County on March 2.

The woman was driving with Lopez in the passenger seat when a man she identified as her ex-husband pulled up next to the vehicle just before 12:45 p.m. at Beaver and Cahoon Road and opened fire, Gallaher said. She then crashed into another vehicle.

Gallaher said the woman also told authorities the shooter is the father of her four children. One of those children was sitting in the back of the vehicle at the time of the shooting, but Lopez was the only one who was struck.

Details of the March 2 arrest were not released, but Gallaher said the U.S. Marshals Service and the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office assisted with apprehending Nieves. Jail records show Nieves has some minor arrests in Pinellas.

His criminal history provided by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office features several arrests under a different name but he is being booked as Nieves.

Joe Daraskevich: (904) 359-4308