Teen Suspect In Fairfield High School Graduation Shooting Located and Arrested Near Dallas

A 17-year-old suspect is in custody in connection with the June 3 shooting in Fairfield, at a high school graduation ceremony, that left one 18-year-old dead and three others wounded.

Police in Fairfield say that an arrest has been made in Texas of a 17-year-old suspect who they believe is responsible for fatally shooting 18-year-old Jamario Baker last month on the evening of his graduation from Sem Yeto High School, June 3. As the Fairfield Police Department explained in a press release Friday, detectives determined that, within days of the shooting, the suspect they’d identified had fled to the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The department’s Investigations Division worked with the US Marshals Service to execute a search warrant and an arrest warrant at a residence in the Dallas area early this morning, July 10, and the 17-year-old suspect was reportedly taken into custody without incident on suspicion of murder and related offenses…

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