17-Year-Old Arrested In Fatal Shooting Of Forrest Keys, University Of Arizona Student From Huntingdon Valley
TUCSON, Ariz. (CBS/AP) -- A teenager has been arrested in the Feb. 20 shooting death of Forrest Keys, a University of Arizona student from Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, in a campus parking garage, the Tucson Police Department announced Friday. Alonzo Orosco, 17, was arrested and booked into jail Thursday on suspicion of first-degree murder and drive-by shooting in the killing of Keys, a department statement said.
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 Huntingdon Valley 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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