Sgt. Christopher Truax was fatally shot in Lemon Grove on Friday. NBC 7's Erika Cervantes has the latest. (Published Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018) 
 
 A man shot and killed early Friday morning in Lemon Grove was identified Sunday as a Marine sergeant stationed at Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said. 
 
 Sheriff's deputies spotted a car parked in the middle of the street on Pacific Avenue, near the Lemon Grove Square Shopping Center shortly after midnight Friday, sheriff's Lt. Rich Williams said. 
 
 Inside, they found Sgt. Christopher Truax Jr., 21, bleeding from a gunshot wound, and a woman. Truax soon stopped breathing and despite CPR efforts from first responders, he was pronounced dead around 12:39 a.m., Williams said. 
 
 "“We join Sergeant Christopher Truax's family in mourning the loss of a loved one." said Lt. Col. James Bauch, commanding officer MWSS 373. "He was a valued Brother-in-Arms to all who served with him and will be missed. We wish them comfort as they navigate the difficult days ahead." 
 
 No bullet holes or shell casing were found in the car and the woman, who was in the driver's seat, was not considered a suspect, he said. 
 
 Truax was from Horseheads, New York and was a food service specialist with the Marine Wing Support Squadron-373 based out of MCAS Miramar. 
 
 He joined the Marine Corp in July 2014 and had previously deployed with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. He had been awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. 
 
 He was married and has a one-year-old son. 
 
 "I look up to the sky and talk to you, what I would give just to hear you talk back," his wife Alexia Truax wrote in a Facebook post. "My love your son and I love you way more then (sic) you could ever imagine." 
 
 San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death a homicide, Williams said. 
 
 Detectives have no motive or suspect in the case. Both the San Diego Police Department and Naval Criminal Investigative Service were investigating. 
 
 Anyone with information about this incident can call the Sheriff's Homicide Unit at (858) 285-6330 or Crime Stoppers at (888) 580-8477. ||||| LEMON GROVE (CNS) - Authorities Tuesday were investigating the death of a 21-year-old active duty Marine sergeant who was shot and killed in Lemon Grove. 
 
 
 
 San Diego County sheriff's deputies patrolling the area found Christopher Truax Jr. shortly before 12:10 a.m. Friday suffering from at least one gunshot wound inside a vehicle stopped in the 7400 block of Pacific Avenue near West Street, police Lt. Rich Williams said. 
 
 
 
 A woman who was also in the car was uninjured, Williams said, adding that she was not considered a suspect. 
 
 
 
 Paramedics attempted to revive Truax, but he was pronounced dead at the scene at about 12:40 a.m., Williams said. 
 
 
 
 The circumstances leading up to the shooting were under investigation. 
 
 
 
 Truax was from Horseheads, New York, but was stationed at the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar, Williams said. 
 
 
 
 He was a food service specialist with the Marine Wing Support Squadron-373. 
 
 
 
 "We join Sergeant Christopher Truax's family in mourning the loss of a loved one," Lt. Col. James Bauch, commanding officer of MWSS 373, said in a statement. "He was a valued brother-in-arms to all who served with him and will be missed. We wish them comfort as they navigate the difficult days ahead." 
 
 
 
 He joined the Marine Corps in July 2014 and had previously deployed with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. His personal awards included the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal. 
 
 
 
 Detectives have released no motive or suspect descriptions in the case. 
 
 
 
 Anyone with information about this killing was asked to call the sheriff's homicide unit at (858) 565-5200. Tipsters can also call Crime Stoppers at (858) 285-6330. 
 
 RELATED COVERAGE ||||| SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - The wife of a Marine who was shot and killed in Lemon Grove Thursday spoke to 10News about her husband and the confusion of what happened. 
 
 "He always tried putting a smile on my face," Alexia Truax said as she spoke through tears about her husband, Marine Sgt. Chris Truax. "He always tried so hard for me and the baby." 
 
 Truax, 20, said she and Chris met online. 
 
 "We started talking and he told me he wanted to meet me, so when he came back from deployment, he came and visited me. From there we started dating and seeing each other back and forth." 
 
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 She lived in Eagle Pass, Texas, and on April 20, 2017, the couple married and moved to California. 
 
 The couple’s son, Chris, was born last September. 
 
 Recently, she moved back home to Texas while her husband pursued his dream of becoming a Marine drill Instructor. She said he had a calling and was about to take classes in October while stationed at MCAS Miramar. 
 
 On Thursday, her phone lit up with texts and calls from brothers and sisters in the Marines sending their condolences. 
 
 "His best friend started calling me and telling me that the Marines were going to show up at my apartment, so I need to be ready,” Truax said. 
 
 Truax said nothing could have prepared her for that moment. She told 10News it's still confusing. 
 
 "Please help find them and figure out why they did that to him,” Truax said. 
 
 "I don't know how to tell him or explain to him that his father isn't here. That's the main thing that's hurting me the most," she added. 
 
 San Diego County sheriff's deputies found Chris Truax with at least one gunshot wound next to a blue Chrysler 200 that was parked in the middle of Pacific Avenue. Deputies said they questioned the woman in the driver's seat. 
 
 Truax said she doesn't know who the woman is. 
 
 She said if she could say one more thing to her husband, it would be: "Don't leave me." 
 
 Anyone with information on the case is urged to call the sheriff's department at (858) 565-5200. 
 
 Truax said her husband had a big heart. Dozens showed support at the candlelight vigil Saturday night. ||||| As California police are working to identify the killer of her husband — a U.S. Marine who dreamed of becoming a drill sergeant — Alexia Truax held her baby boy and said she doesn't know how she'll ever explain to him that his father is dead. 
 
 Marine Sgt. Christopher Truax, 21, was found shot dead early Friday morning in the San Diego suburb of Lemon Grove after sheriff's deputies discovered him lying in the middle of the road, next to a car with a woman at the wheel, according to the San Diego County Sheriff's Office. 
 
 "Please help find them and figure out why they did that to him," a tearful Alexia told ABC affiliate station KGTV in San Diego. 
 
 Truax was found shot just after 12 a.m. on Friday, and was pronounced dead after deputies and firefighters tried in vain to save his life, the sheriff's office said in a statement. 
 
 No arrests have been made and homicide investigators were attempting to identify Truax's killer on Tuesday. 
 
 Investigators questioned the woman found at the scene. She was in the driver's seat of a blue Chrysler 200, but she is not a suspect in Traux's slaying, according to sheriff's officials. 
 
 Sheriff's officials would not disclose the relationship between the woman and Truax. 
 
 KGTV 
 
 Alexia Truax said she did not know the woman who was with her husband when he was found shot by deputies. 
 
 She said she and her husband were married on April 20, 2017, and that their child was born last September. 
 
 "I don't know how to tell him or explain to him that his father isn't here," Alexia Truax, told KGTV of her year-old son, Chris. "That's the main thing that's hurting me the most." 
 
 She said her husband was taking classes at Marine Corp Station Miramar, near San Diago, and that his dream was to become a Marine drill instructor. 
 
 Alexia Truax moved back to her home state of Texas while her husband pursued his ambitions. She said she learned of her husband's death when his Marine colleagues started calling her to express condolences. 
 
 "His best friend started calling me and telling me that Marines were going to show up at my apartment, so I needed to be ready," she said. 
 
 Sgt. Truax, who was raised in the upstate New York town of Horseheads, joined the Marines after graduating from Horseheads High School in 2014. 
 
 He was assigned to the Marine Wing Support Squadron 373s as a food service specialist, Lt. Col. James Bauch, commander of the squadron, said in a statement. 
 
 "We join Sergeant Christopher Truax's family in mourning the loss of a loved one," Bauch said in his statement. "He was a valued brother-in-arms to all who served with him, and will be missed. We wish them comfort as they navigate the difficult days ahead." 
 
 In a Facebook post, Alexia Truax wrote of her husband's death, "This hurts so much. I can feel it in my chest, my heart aches .. I'm so crushed." 
 
 "He always tried putting a smile on my face," she told KGTV of her husband. "He always tried so hard for me and the baby." ||||| The wife of Christopher Truax Jr., an active duty U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who was fatally shot in the head over the weekend in California, is speaking out about the "remarkable" 21-year-old in hopes of finding his killer. 
 
 Deputies found Truax bleeding from a gunshot wound inside a parked car in Lemon Grove, California, just after midnight Friday, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. Authorities attempted to perform CPR, but Truax soon succumbed to his injuries. 
 
 A woman, who has not yet been identified, had been sitting in the car with Truax — though police say she is only being considered a witness at this time. 
 
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 Truax's bride, Alexia, told Fox News she was "speechless" when she heard her husband had been killed. The 20-year-old was living in their Eagle Pass, Texas home with their 11-month-old son while Truax was stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar — about 15 miles from Lemon Grove. 
 
 "My heart hurts so much and it kills me to know I will never be able to hear [his] voice again," Alexia told Fox News on Monday. "I will be praying for [him] each and everyday just how I always have been." 
 
 Alexia said she will continue to search for clues regarding her late husband's death, but right now she's taking time to mourn the loss of her best friend. 
 
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 "Rest easy my love, baby. I love you ... you will be in my heart in my thoughts and in my life always and forever. I can’t wait to see you again," Alexia said in a message to Truax. 
 
 San Diego police are offering a $1,000 reward for any information that could lead to an arrest in Truax's death, which authorities have officially ruled a homicide. Anyone with tips about the incident is requested to call the San Diego County sheriff's homicide unit at (858)-285-6330.
– Alexia Truax married her best friend last spring before giving birth to the couple's son in September. A year later, her world has been turned upside down. "Speechless" is how the 20-year-old Texas resident describes feeling after learning her husband, Marine Corps Sgt. Christopher Truax Jr., was fatally shot in the head in California early Friday, per Fox News. A native of Horseheads, NY, and a food service specialist with the Marine Wing Support Squadron 373 based out of Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, the 21-year-old was found with a gunshot wound to the head in a car parked in the middle of a street in the San Diego suburb of Lemon Grove just after midnight Friday and pronounced dead half an hour later, reports KFMB. No bullet holes or shell casings were found in the car, per NBC San Diego. Offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department has released little other information except to note that a woman in the driver's seat of the blue Chrysler 200 is considered a witness to the homicide; her relationship to the victim wasn't disclosed. Truax says she doesn't know the woman, per ABC News. She adds her husband, who joined the Marine Corps in 2014 and was later deployed, had been taking classes at the station 15 miles from Lemon Grove and dreamed of becoming a drill instructor. "It kills me to know I will never be able to hear [his] voice again," she tells Fox. Of her son, she adds to KGTV, "I don't know how to tell him … that his father isn't here."