The suspect has not yet been arrested but the investigators say they have reason to believe he has ties to Chula Vista, San Diego and Mexico.
Chula Vista police are searching for a 38-year-old man suspected of fatally attacking a 59-year-old man on a crowded dance floor at a South Bay restaurant last month, the agency announced Friday.
Investigators suspect Bernabe Bahena Rivera, 38, as the man who assaulted Jose Perez-Fong, 59, at the Papagayos Grill and Cantina on Otay Lakes Road on April 15. Perez-Fong died on April 21 after nearly a week in the ICU at Scripps Mercy Hospital.Riviera has not yet been arrested but the investigators say they have reason to believe he has ties to Chula Vista, San Diego and Mexico.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
Perez-Fong's daughter, Frances Nayar, told NBC 7 her dad was out with friends celebrating a promotion at work. Those friends told Nayar that her father was hit from behind and that he never really had a chance to defend himself. He fell to the ground after several punches, and then was kicked in the head, they told Nayar.She said Pere-Fong loved being a grandfather to her son Jayden. They used to argue about who their father and grandfather loved more.
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