Suspect Sought In Shooting Of Soldier At Welcome-Home Party

SAN BERNARDINO (CBS) — Family members of Army Spec. Christopher Sullivan spent Christmas Day by the soldier's hospital bedside, hoping his condition would improve despite receiving gunshot wounds that have left him paralyzed.

The San Bernardino Police Department identified the man sought in the connection with the shooting as 19-year-old Ruben Ray Jurado.

Sullivan, 22, remains in critical condition and his blood pressure was too low Sunday for doctors to perform surgery on him, his mother, Suzanne Sullivan said.

"He's on 100 percent life support right now," she said.

Sullivan, a San Bernardino native who is stationed in Fort Campbell, Ky., had been recovering the past year from injuries he received in a suicide bombing last December in Afghanistan.

Christopher Sullivan, 22, is in "extremely" critical condition, and possibly paralyzed, according to his family in a report in the San Bernardino Sun.

Sullivan was shot Friday evening.

His aunt, Theresa Marquez, told the newspaper, "He served a tour, and to come home to this, it's so unfair."

Sullivan, currently stationed in Kentucky, is a 2008 graduate of San Bernardino High School. There he played football and was on the wrestling team.

He was home on leave Friday when he was shot at his own welcome-home party in the 2800 block of Garner Avenue in San Bernardino.

The gunman fled before police arrived.

San Bernardino police detectives spent Christmas Eve pursuing leads in the shooting, but so far have not captured Jurado.