19-year-old Dinkisra Mengistu, above, a 2012 graduate of Westerville South High School, was fatally shot while he sat inside his car in a hotel parking lot in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday, March 9th, 2014. (NBC4)
By Theodore Decker
A Delaware County man charged with killing an Ethiopian immigrant on the Far North Side on Sunday was arrested by Columbus SWAT officers yesterday.
Anthony M. Monaco, 19, of 3714 Perennial Lane in Liberty Township, was in the Franklin County jail last night pending an appearance in Franklin County Municipal Court this morning. He is charged with one count of murder in the death of Dinkisra Mengistu, 19.
Mengistu, a 2012 graduate of Westerville South High School, was shot as he sat in a vehicle in the parking lot at 175 Hutchinson Ave., near the Sheraton Suites Columbus, early Sunday morning. A motive for the shooting hadn’t been determined, although police said the victim and the suspect might have attended the same party the night before.
Read more at The Columbus Dispatch.
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