PHOENIX — The suspect in a deadly shooting in Phoenix on Friday has been taken into custody after turning himself in at the US-Mexico border in southern Arizona, according to the Phoenix Police Department.
Police said they were called to a neighborhood near 51st Avenue and McDowell Road at about 9:55 a.m. on Friday due to a shooting.
When officers got to the scene, they found a man who had been shot. That man has been identified as 62-year-old Jose Perez Olvera.
Olvera was later pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting by Phoenix firefighters.
Phoenix police officers spoke with several witnesses and learned that their suspect, identified as 20-year-old Miguel Angel Rievoles Perez, had fled the scene.
On Friday evening, Perez turned himself into Border Patrol agents at the Nogales port of entry in southern Arizona.
Perez has been turned over to Phoenix police and booked into the Maricopa County Jail on charges of second-degree murder and discharging a firearm in city limits.
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