The suspect, identified as Mekhi Camden Speed, is a cousin of Locke, according to charging documents
Police arrested Speed on Monday afternoon. He was expected to be charged on Tuesday with two counts of second degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing 38-year-old Otis Elder last month, the police department said.
Authorities reviewed surveillance video, and found a scene nearly identical to the one witnesses had described: a light Mercedes-Benz pulled up next to Elder's SUV. One male got into the passenger seat, another stood outside of the driver's side door. The male outside of the car, dressed in a dark jacket, light-colored hooded sweatshirt and white shoes, shot into it before the two males ran back to their Mercedes-Benz.
Witnesses at the apartment complex were able to identify the male in the light-colored hooded sweatshirt as Speed. The building's staff told authorities that Speed had access to his brother's apartment, his mother's apartment and another person who he was with the night of the murder's apartment. The Saint Paul Police Department said Tuesday that the warrants related to the case will"likely be unsealed after charges have been filed."