PHOENIX — Phoenix police have recently arrested a suspect in the 1998 murder of 28-year-old Sarah Carr.
The victim, a mother of six children, was shot to death at a home near 14th Street and McDowell Road on July 9, 1998.
A suspect was not identified until 2016 when new technology helped investigators submit charges against Javier Lorenzano-Nunez, who was extradited to Phoenix earlier this month and booked into jail on a homicide warrant.
"After 26 years, the suspect in the murder of Sarah Carr will now face accountability and charges related to his actions in July 1998," Phoenix police wrote in a statement.
One of Carr's children grew up to become a police officer in Austin.
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