By Griffin Salkowski
The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson
TUCSON, Ariz. — The second of three men investigators say is linked to the fatal shooting of a Tucson police recruit was located Saturday evening, authorities say.
The individual, whose name the Pima County Sheriff’s Department has not released, is not under arrest at this point, the department said Saturday night in a news release.
Investigators are currently working to determine his involvement in the incident, the release said.
On Thursday evening, the department released surveillance footage they say shows the man walking away from the SUV believed to have fled from the home on the city’s far southwest side where a Tucson police recruit was shot and killed, and his fiancée was wounded early Wednesday morning.
Early Saturday morning, Santiago Jorge Rogers, 39, was located and arrested on a warrant for first-degree murder. He was apprehended at a hotel in the 4800 block of South Palo Verde Road, near East Irvington Road and Interstate 10, the Sheriff’s Department had said.
Alex James Barnett, 33, who was the first of the three to be identified as a suspect, was still at large Saturday night.
The deadly shooting happened just before 6 a.m. on Aug. 19. Carlos Ramirez, 23, was found shot dead inside his home near West Valencia Road and South Camino Verde. His fiancée, a 23-year-old corrections officer for Pima County, was shot and wounded in the incident, the Sheriff’s Department has said.
No possible motive for the shooting has been provided.
Ramirez, a former corrections officer, was days away from completing the academy to join the Tucson Police Department. The couple’s child was inside the home at the time of the shooting.
Anyone with information about Barnett or the incident is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, the anonymous tip line.
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