Man arrested for holiday murders in San Diego

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (KABC) -- A 29-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murdering three people in San Diego around the Christmas holiday.

Carlos Gallopa, 29, was arrested late Friday night and booked Saturday. He's suspected of gunning down two brothers and one sibling's fiance.

Salvadore Belvedere and Ilona Flint, both 22 years old, were found with gunshot wounds to the head in the parking lot of the Westfield Mission Valley mall on Christmas Eve last year.

Flint was declared dead at the scene, and Belvedere died a few days later at a hospital.

Belvedere's brother, 24-year old Gianni, who was Flint's fiance, disappeared around the same time.

He was found dead in the trunk of a car nearly a month later and about 90 miles north in Riverside after a caller reported a bad smell coming from a car in a parking lot.

San Diego police did not share Gallopa's relationship to the victims or what evidence led to his arrest.

Gallopa was held without bail and scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday, county jail records show.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.