Oceanside police have arrested a suspect in a road-rage shooting death that occurred last weekend, announcing Friday that the suspect was a man who was paroled in 2019 after serving more than two decades in prison for a 1996 slaying. Pele Fuifui, 51, is suspected of fatally shooting Justin Bazan, 34, whose body was discovered around 2 a.m. Sunday inside a vehicle near College Boulevard and Olive Drive, Oceanside police Detective Sgt. Dave Estrada said in a statement. Oceanside police officers arrest Pele Fuifui on Thursday in Orange County. (Courtesy of Oceanside Police Department) Police did not say how they identified Fuifui as the suspect or determined the attack was the result of road rage, saying only that his arrest was “the result of a thorough investigation” conducted by detectives from the crimes of violence unit. Detectives arrested him Thursday in Placentia, in northern Orange County, according to Estrada. Police said Fuifui was released from prison in 2019 after serving 23 years for a slaying that occurred in San Diego. According to a 1996 story in the Union-Tribune, Fuifui attacked another man with a car jack on June 2 of that year during a picnic with multiple families at Spanish Landing near the San Diego International Airport. Police said the two men met for the first time that day. At one point the 34-year-old victim said something that offended Fuifui, who walked away but allegedly returned and assaulted the other man who ended up in a coma, police said at the time. Police arrested Fuifui, who was 23 years old and living in National City, when he went to visit the man, Naason Kitiona, in the hospital two days later, according to the news account from that time. He was originally booked on an assault charge, but when the victim died about three weeks later, he was charged with the man’s murder. Oceanside police said Fuifui has been booked into the Vista jail on suspicion of murder in Bazan’s slaying. Online jail records show he’s expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Vista Superior Court.