Overview
- A coworker reported the woman missing and told police she had recently been threatened by her husband and stayed with a friend out of fear.
- Officers’ welfare check found no response, and a maintenance worker discovered the woman the next day; she was pronounced dead from at least one gunshot wound.
- Detectives identified her husband, 45-year-old Zheer Queja Malassab, obtained a warrant, and traced the victim’s vehicle out of state.
- Pennsylvania State Police attempted a felony stop, Malassab refused to pull over, and snowy conditions brought a brief pursuit to an end before he surrendered.
- After being read his Miranda rights, Malassab admitted to the shooting, police said, and he remains in Pennsylvania awaiting extradition to face a murder charge in Solano County; authorities have not released the victim’s name and say this is Vallejo’s 17th homicide of the year.