A second 15-year-old has been arrested in connection with a homicide after a boy was found fatally shot in a Broken Arrow neighborhood last month.
The U.S. Marshals Service’s Northern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task force assisted police in the arrest of Ja’Cori Whitmore, the Broken Arrow Police Department announced in a press release.
Whitmore is accused in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy who was found in the 1400 block of West Trenton Street, a residential area northeast of 51st Street and 145th East Avenue, early Jan. 24, police said.
A week earlier, 15-year-old Ky’Leigh Shaw was arrested in connection with the homicide. Both Whitmore and Shaw are expected to face first-degree murder charges and be tried as adults, police said.
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The investigation remains ongoing, according to Broken Arrow police.
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