TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A teenager has been arrested in the Feb. 20 shooting death of a University of Arizona student in a campus parking garage, the Tucson Police Department announced Friday.
The 17-year-old boy was arrested and booked into jail Thursday on suspicion of first-degree murder and drive-by shooting in the killing of Forrest Keys, a department statement said.
The Associated Press generally does not identify juvenile criminal suspects. Officer Frank Magos, a Tucson police spokesman, said it wasn’t immediately known whether the youth would be prosecuted as an adult.
Keys, 20, was a sophomore from Philadelphia majoring in communications.
According to police, Keys was walking with friends in the garage at about 11 p.m. when a verbal altercation took place between him and people riding in a red Cadillac car.
“It started as an altercation and escalated from there,” Magos said.
Magos said university police turned up information that helped identify the car, which Magos said hadn’t yet been located.
Investigators didn’t want to release additional information because of ongoing efforts to locate the car as well as individuals who could be suspects or witnesses, Magos said.
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