Police in Lexington have arrested a second person in the fatal shooting of a University of Kentucky student.
A news release from the city says 20-year-old Efrain Diaz of Lexington was charged Friday with murder and robbery.
Diaz and 18-year-old Justin D. Smith are charged in the death early Friday of 22-year-old Jonathan W. Krueger of Perrysburg, Ohio. Smith is charged with murder, robbery, tampering with evidence and evading police.
Krueger was a junior communications major and photo editor at the school newspaper. He was shot in the chest about 2 a.m. a block from the Lexington campus while walking home from a party.
The man Krueger was with told police a minivan pulled up and confronted them. He said he managed to flee, found two men nearby and contacted authorities.
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