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Arrest made in fatal Colorado mall shooting

By Associated Press
Published: December 29, 2019, 9:12pm
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FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 27, 2019, file photo, police vehicles sit outside a J.C. Penney store entrance at Town Center at Aurora mall late in Aurora, Colo. Authorities announced Saturday police have arrested 18-year-old Kamyl Xavier Garrette in a mall shooting that killed a 17-year-old boy in the Denver suburb.
FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 27, 2019, file photo, police vehicles sit outside a J.C. Penney store entrance at Town Center at Aurora mall late in Aurora, Colo. Authorities announced Saturday police have arrested 18-year-old Kamyl Xavier Garrette in a mall shooting that killed a 17-year-old boy in the Denver suburb. (Quincy Snowdon/The Aurora Sentinel via AP, File) Photo Gallery

DENVER — Authorities say police have arrested a suspect in a mall shooting that killed a 17-year-old boy in a Denver suburb.

The capture of 18-year-old Kamyl Xavier Garrette was announced the day after the Friday shooting inside a J.C. Penney store at the Town Center at Aurora mall. Garrette was charged with first-degree murder, according to Aurora police.

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