A 35-year-old man has been arrested of suspicion of first-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting at a Tucson house party in 2008, authorities say.
Rafael Soto Alvarez was arrested Saturday and booked into the Pima County jail on charges of murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, Tucson police said in a news release. Bond was set at $1 million.
The fatal shooting occurred early Nov. 2, 2008 in the front yard of a house near South Campbell Avenue and East Drexel Road during a confrontation at a house party, police say.
James A. Noriega, 20, was shot and killed and a second man was shot and paralyzed, the release said.
In early 2026, cold case investigators collected enough evidence to obtain an arrest warrant for Alvarez, the release said. Investigators learned about his whereabouts Saturday while conducting an unrelated investigation by the Pima County Sheriff's Department and Alvarez was arrested later, the release said.
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