Man held in fatal shooting after UF-FSU game
A man is being held without bond for a fatal shooting in a Gainesville parking garage.
Okpara Nelson surrendered to police without incident Wednesday and was charged with murder.
A police spokesman says Nelson was seen on surveillance video fleeing the scene after Sunday's shooting.
The victim, Andrew Arosemena, yelled for people ahead of him to move their car. Police say one man walked up to his car and shot him in the head. Arosemena died at the hospital.
The shooting happened after the Florida-Florida State football game. The victim was from Tallahassee.
(Via Miami Herald)
UPDATE: The Gainesville Sun is reporting that officers made the second arrest in four days early Wednesday in the slaying of Andrew Arosemena, 22. Relatives of the accused shooter in the case talked the Gainesville man into surrendering without incident to a lone Alachua County sheriff's deputy, Warrants Investigator Broderick Robinson, outside an area hotel about 6 a.m.
Okpara K. Nelson, 22, is accused of murder and was being held at the Alachua County jail without bond after his arrest. Already being held at the jail is Antwan M. Maye, 25, of Gainesville, who turned himself in to police late Sunday. A $500,000 bond is pending for Maye, who has been charged with aggravated assault with a weapon.
Okpara Nelson surrendered to police without incident Wednesday and was charged with murder.A police spokesman says Nelson was seen on surveillance video fleeing the scene after Sunday's shooting.
The victim, Andrew Arosemena, yelled for people ahead of him to move their car. Police say one man walked up to his car and shot him in the head. Arosemena died at the hospital.
The shooting happened after the Florida-Florida State football game. The victim was from Tallahassee.
(Via Miami Herald)
UPDATE: The Gainesville Sun is reporting that officers made the second arrest in four days early Wednesday in the slaying of Andrew Arosemena, 22. Relatives of the accused shooter in the case talked the Gainesville man into surrendering without incident to a lone Alachua County sheriff's deputy, Warrants Investigator Broderick Robinson, outside an area hotel about 6 a.m.
Okpara K. Nelson, 22, is accused of murder and was being held at the Alachua County jail without bond after his arrest. Already being held at the jail is Antwan M. Maye, 25, of Gainesville, who turned himself in to police late Sunday. A $500,000 bond is pending for Maye, who has been charged with aggravated assault with a weapon.
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