A man was in custody Saturday, suspected in the shooting death of a 52-year-old victim in City Heights earlier in the week.

San Diego police arrested the suspect, Keith Rose, 72, at 11:40 a.m. Friday in the area of 4800 Filipo Street. Rose, investigators said in a news release, lives across the street from where the shooting took place Tuesday.

At about 11:55 p.m. that evening officers were flagged down and told that the sound of gunshots had been heard near 43rd Street and Polk Avenue.

Officers checked the area and located a person down in the west alley of 43rd between University and Polk Avenue. The man, believed to be homeless, was transported to a nearby hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

He has been identified as Mark Edward Tome of San Diego.

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