The suspect identifies at the shootout in which the soccer player of Mount Tahoma High School was killed

A 20-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday for alleged murder after official on April 20 had found a boy's shot in the 1700 Block of East 41st Street, as a press release from the Tacoma Police Department shows.

The police officers from Tacoma were sent shortly before 9:30 p.m. on April 20 after she received calls for shots in the area in the city of Tacoma in Salishan, the news tribune reported. They found the boy wounded and he was taken to a local hospital, but did not survive. Detectives and crime technicians began to examine the incident as a murder.

According to the press release, the suspect was instructed to the Pierce County prison for the first degree.

The victim was later identified as Veron Lockett, a junior at Mount Tahoma High School. A vigil in candlelight in memory of Lockett, which also played football for school and from his coach as a “fighter” and a child who “always took the ray of hope in everything he did” took place on April 22nd in the school football stadium. A gofundme was also set up to support his family.

The day after the fatal shootout, the police reacted to another report on shots in the same region, Shelbie Boyd, spokesman for the police authority, told the News Tribune on April 21. This incident led to a “modified lockdown” near Blix Elementary, in which they ended a “restriction of the building to the output of the building, and the staff to be freely concerned, and the news that was regularly dependent on and further instruct regular instructions, and the news stands that deal in the news.

A third shootout in the 4800 block of the East Q Street hit the area of ​​Salishan on April 28 and let a man dead and a woman injured, reported the news tribune.