Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 | 1:15 p.m.
SAN DIEGO — Authorities say a 27-year-old Las Vegas man is in custody awaiting his transfer in custody to California to face a murder charge in the death of a woman whose body was found last month off a road near Interstate 15 in Escondido.
Records show that Paul Castro is being held at the Clark County jail in Las Vegas pending a court extradition hearing on Monday.
San Diego sheriff's Lt. Kenn Nelson tells the Union Tribune that Castro was sought in the shooting of 23-year-old Antonia Herrera of San Marcos. Her body was found Jan. 12.
Nelson says Castro was identified by another man who was in a car when Castro allegedly shot Herrera several times.
Nelson says Herrera had lived for a time in Las Vegas.
