An 18-year-old man was arrested Thursday afternoon for the homicide of a 16-year-old pupil who was at a bus cease in Indiana hours earlier. 

Tyrique Sevin Radford El, 18, is accused of fatally capturing a Whiteland Group Excessive College sophomore who was ready for the bus earlier than 7 a.m. with different college students. 

Radford El initially fled the scene after what police stated was a focused capturing however was later taken into custody and preliminarily charged with homicide, FOX 59 reported. 

His arrest got here after a a number of company manhunt that concerned an Indiana State Police helicopter and an ATF Okay-9 officer. 

INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SHOT AND KILLED AT BUS STOP, SUSPECT AT LARGE 

Tyrique Sevin Radford El, 18, is accused of fatally capturing a 16-year-old at a bus cease in Indiana. 
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Police haven’t detailed how the suspect was positioned. A number of colleges within the space had been briefly locked down earlier than his arrest. 

The sufferer was recognized as Temario Stokes Jr., in keeping with FOX 59. 

“My child was an outgoing individual,” the sufferer’s mom Tiera Ervin advised reporters, FOX 59 reported. “My child would give folks the shirt off his again. My child was a ravishing one who is gone too quickly. It took my coronary heart away from me.”

Witnesses stated the sufferer was standing at a bus cease with a number of different college students when the suspect approached. 
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She stated he had two youthful siblings and their household moved into the neighborhood in April. 

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Ervin added, “After I heard the pictures, I ran exterior and noticed my son mendacity on the bottom, shot a number of instances.”

The capturing occurred on the nook of Windfall Drive and Winterwood Drive within the Summerfield Housing addition in Greenwood, Indiana, in keeping with authorities. 

The sufferer attended Whiteland Group Excessive College in Greenwood, Indiana. 
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“It’s a unhappy day for The Clark-Nice college group. It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we report that considered one of our highschool college students has died after being shot close to his bus cease earlier this morning, close to US 31 and Worthsville Highway,” Clark Nice Colleges Superintendent Dr. Patrick Spray stated in a press release. “Our ideas and prayers exit to his household and pals and likewise to his classmates and academics at Whiteland Group Excessive College.”

Fox Information’ Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.