Michel Mendivil-Lopez

An 18-year-old man was arrested Wednesday in connection to a shooting of a man in Tucson Estates, authorities said.

Michel Mendivil-Lopez is facing attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery, domestic violence aggravated assault causing serious physical injury, and domestic violence aggravated assault with a weapon, said Deputy Cody Gress, a Pima County Sheriff's Department spokesman.

Mendivil-Lopez was booked into the Pima County jail after he was taken into custody at about 2:30 p.m., Gress said. He was located by deputies, robbery assault detectives and the Fugitive Investigative Strike Team.

Investigators did not release where Mendivil-Lopez was found, or if the weapon used in the crime was located.Β 

On Tuesday shortly before 8 p.m., deputies responded to the 5000 block of West Lone Star Drive for an unknown problem. The neighborhood is located east of South Kinney Road and north of West Bopp Road.

When deputies arrived, they learned that a man had been shot multiple times. He was taken by paramedics to Banner-University Medical Center Tucson, Gress said.

Detectives did not elaborate further about the shooting. Β Β 


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