On Tuesday, the New York Times reports, police in Denton, Texas, announced that an active-duty Marine corporal had been arrested in Arizona. He was being held on a murder warrant related to the New Year’s shooting death of a 20-year-old student at the University of North Texas.

United States marshals arrested Corporal Eric Jamal Johnson, 20, who joined the Marines in August 2013, on Tuesday morning, in a car outside the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona, where Johnson was posted as an administrative specialist.

Sara Wynette Mutschlechner was shot while taking three friends home from a New Year’s Eve party. She was the designated driver. From CBS News:

A dark-colored SUV with several people inside allegedly approached her vehicle and the occupants of both vehicles began arguing, according to CBS DFW.

As both vehicles began driving away, someone in the SUV opened fire at the car Mutschlechner was driving, hitting it several times.

Mutschlechner’s vehicle slammed into another car before crashing into a utility pole.

The 20-year-old was taken to Denton Regional Medical Center with a bullet-wound to the head and died after being taken off life support, CBS DFW reported.

According to the affidavit for the arrest warrant, two passengers told police that they had attended a large party in Denton “in which there were multiple musicians/rappers in attendance.”

The passengers described the men to police, who interviewed people at the party, and identified several suspects, including Johnson, who allegedly performs under the pseudonym “Santana Sage.” The suspect vehicle is registered under Johnson’s name. (The witness account of a dark-colored SUV turned out to be incorrect, police said. Surveillance video showed the car, a Honda Pilot, to be silver. It is in custody.)

According to the Times, Matthew Goodwin, a deputy marshal, said that Johnson would likely be extradited to Texas to face the charges.

Image via Yuma County Sheriff. Contact the author of this post: brendan.oconnor@gawker.com.