3rd Phoenix suspect arrested for Texas cartoon shooting
Jun 16, 2015, 6:44 AM | Updated: 7:52 am
PHOENIX — Another Phoenix man has been arrested in connection with the shooting at a cartoon contest in Texas last month.
Channel 12 news reported Tuesday morning that federal authorities had identified Abdul Malik Adbul Kareem as a third suspect in the assault in Garland, Texas.
Kareem has also gone by the name Decarus Thomas. He was taken into custody last week on weapons and conspiracy charges. He was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.
Two others, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, who had shared an apartment in Phoenix near 19th Avenue and Thunderbird Road, were killed by suburban Dallas police during that attack.
The Phoenix apartment where two of the three men accused in a Texas shooting lived. (AP Photo)
According to court records obtained by a local television station, a grand jury indicted Kareem on conspiracy charges, making false statements and interstate transportation of firearms with intent to commit a felony.
Documents detailed the three men meeting at Kareem’s home and practicing their shooting in the desert.
