MESA, Ariz. — The Mesa Police Department has detained a suspect accused of killing an 18-year-old during a party at an apartment on Nov. 6.
Joe Rim, 20, was taken into custody this week on suspicion of murdering Stephen Jacobo.
At around 5 a.m. police received reports of gunshots near 1700 West Emelita. When officers arrived, they found Jacobo who had been shot in one of the apartments in the area.
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First responders pronounced the man dead on the scene.
Witnesses told police that during the party Jacobo asked Rim about the gun on his waistband. In response, the suspect allegedly grabbed his gun and started waving it around, court records show.
The person who reported the gunfire to police said that they saw several people running out of the apartment, but police said that the apartment was empty when they arrived.
Rim was apprehended during a traffic stop on Thursday and booked into jail for second-degree murder, police said.
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