A former Vancouver man was arrested in California over the weekend in regard to the May killing of his roommate, according to Vancouver Police Major Crimes Sgt. Jeff Kipp.

David Jonathan Salgado, 20, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Pacific Southwest Fugitive Task Force on Saturday in Venice Beach in Southern California on suspicion of first-degree murder, Kipp said. Police say that Salgado tried to jump into the ocean to avoid being detained.

Investigators believe that Salgado lured one roommate away from their apartment in order to kill his other roommate, Fernando Cendejas, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in support of the arrest warrant.

Salgado, Cendejas and Amador Patino all lived together at the Ashley Terrace Apartments, 4500 Nicholson Road, according to the court document.

Patino found his brother and roommate, Cendejas, dead on the couch of their Bagley Downs apartment in the early morning hours of May 9. Cendejas died of multiple gunshot wounds, and police reported that he had a gunshot wound to the head, court records show.