BARSTOW – Police in Barstow have arrested a 50-year-old man on suspicion of murder in the shooting death earlier this month of a Marine stationed a Camp Pendleton.

Police arrested Issa Wajeel on Friday and he's being held on $2 million bail.

Pfc. Michael Firkins, originally of Tacoma, Wash., was found in his truck outside of Wajeel's house on July 3. The 20-year-old had been shot in the head.

According to a police report, Wajeel told officers he had confronted an unidentified man whom he believed was trying to break into his house. Wajeel was found in his yard with a gun on the night of the shooting, but he did not acknowledge shooting Firkins.

A spokesman for Fort Irwin said Wajeel worked at that Army base as a contractor.

Information from: Desert Dispatch, www.desertdispatch.com