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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