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Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.08.2008
A 19-year-old woman was shot to death in Midtown early Sunday and her 23-year-old boyfriend was arrested.
Officers responded about 6:30 a.m. Sunday to Candlewood Place Apartments, 3234 E. Bellevue St., said Sgt. Mark Robinson, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
They found Nichole Renea Katz. lying in an upstairs breezeway connecting two apartment buildings, he said.
She had an apparent gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene, Robinson said.
Jonathan David Swihart was arrested at the scene on one count of second-degree murder with extreme indifference to human life.
He was taken to the Pima County jail but released Sunday night to Pre-Trial Services.
Katz had lived in Swihart's apartment at one time, but Robinson was unsure whether she was living there at the time of her death.
Robinson could not say what prompted the killing, but police are treating it as a domestic- violence homicide. He did not know whether a firearm was found at the scene.
Police received multiple calls from neighbors reporting unknown trouble at the apartment complex, near East Speedway and North Country Club Road.
The shooting was the Tucson-area's second domestic- violence homicide in less than a month.
Lisa Berrie, 25, a mother of two, was found strangled in her Oro Valley apartment on Aug. 12. Her live-in boyfriend, Paul M. Beam, 35, has been charged with her death.
● Star reporter Kimberly Matas contributed to this story.
● Contact reporter Rob O'Dell at 573-4346 or at rodell@azstarnet.com.
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