Cleburne police said they arrested a man Friday in the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old woman almost a week ago.
Giovanni Jimenez Diaz, 20, was booked into the Parker County jail and faces a charge of murder, police said. Investigators identified him as a suspect shortly after the shooting.
Officers responded around 1 p.m. Sept. 8 to the 500 block of Poindexter Avenue on reports of a shooting. They learned while en route that a woman had been shot and taken to another location. When they arrived there, officers found Kaylee Lanay Merchant with gunshot wounds. She was taken to a hospital, where she died.
Police determined Merchant was the passenger in an SUV that was “involved in an altercation at the initial location,” police said.
The following day, police publicly identified Jimenez Diaz as a suspect and issued a warrant for his arrest. Police did not say how he came to be identified as a suspect, but said in a news release that “all vehicles involved in this incident have been identified, located” and were in police custody.
Police said the investigation is ongoing.
