PASCO, Wash. (AP) - A man charged in 2006 with shooting a woman at her home in this Eastern Washington town has been extradited from Mexico City, Mexican authorities said Saturday.

A spokeswoman for Mexico's federal attorney general's office said Martin Vaal Lopez, 31, was handed over to U.S. officials Friday and taken directly to the United States, where he was wanted in the shooting death of Beatris Pulido-Padilla, 39, a mother of three.

Police arrested Vaal in Mexico City in March 2007, where he was held until his extradition order was processed, according to a joint statement from the Attorney General's office, Public Safety Department and Foreign Relations Department.

In documents filed in Frankin County Superior Court, prosecutors wrote that a man knocked on Pulido-Padilla's door on June 27, 2006, asked for "the lady of the house," entered and fired several shots before fleeing. Lopez, identified by a witness from a photographic lineup, was charged three days later with first-degree murder. No motive has been given.

Lopez is the third person in the past three years to be arrested in Mexico and returned to Franklin County to face murder charges.

Franklin County Prosecutor Steve M. Lowe said previously that about 13 others face charges in the county and have also fled to Mexico.

"As the publicity and the word (of growing Mexican government cooperation) gets around, they're going to be harder to find in Mexico," Lowe said. "We want to move as quickly as we can with information we have now to get these folks arrested in Mexico."

A message left at the prosecutor's office on Saturday was not immediately returned.