COMPTON, Calif.—Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old man with murdering a woman who was shot and pushed from a car during a pursuit.

The district attorney's office says Juan Diego Valencia was also charged Tuesday with evading police. The complaint includes gun and gang allegations. Valencia is due in Compton Superior Court Tuesday afternoon.

Sheriff's deputies were trying to stop a car for a traffic violation in Lynwood at 11:15 p.m. on Sept. 6 when the vehicle sped off.

During the pursuit, the car pulled over and the driver pushed out the body of 24-year-old Selene Mayoral. She had been shot in the head.

Valencia was arrested early the next day after a barricade situation at a Hawthorne apartment.

If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison.