A teen has been charged in connection with the shooting that took place at an apartment complex earlier this month that left two dead and several injured.
On Wednesday, May 20, homicide detectives with the Amarillo Police Department obtained a murder warrant for Jame Htoo, 17, in connection with the homicide that occurred May 2 at the Westminster Apartments in the 2400 block of Coulter, police said.
Htoo was already being held in the Potter County Jail on unrelated charges when the warrant was obtained, according to APD.
The investigation remains ongoing.
As previously reported, a 16-year-old male teenager and Ezekiel Rudy Almazan, 17, were killed and 10 people were injured in the shooting at a party early Saturday, May 2 at an apartment in Westminster Apartments in the 2400 block of South Coulter. According to police, a party that had begun at another location moved to this address, and the gathering involved both juveniles and young adults.
Preliminary information indicates several people were asked to leave the original location. Those individuals later followed attendees to the Coulter location, attempted to enter an apartment, and opened fire using a rifle-style weapon, according to police.
APD earlier said that its Homicide and PACE Units recovered two AR-style rifles believed to have been used in the shooting.
GoFundMe online fundraising pages were set up for the families of the two teenagers who died — a 16-year-old teenager identified by family as Deven Antonucci, and Almazan.
This article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: Murder warrant issued for teen in Amarillo apartment shooting
Reporting by Kristina Wood, Amarillo Globe-News / Amarillo Globe-News
USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect
