Athens-Clarke police arrested a 20-year-old Athens man late Tuesday on a charge of murdering an Athens teen killed near his home early this month.
The suspect, Kenyas Trevion Yearby of Summerbrook Circle, was also served with a probation violation when he was booked into the Clarke County Jail, where he remains without bond.
Yearby is charged in the shooting death of Keshawn Gainer, 15, a former Cedar Shoals High School student slain on Westchester Circle in a neighborhood off Tallassee Road.
“This senseless crime was solved quickly because of the dogged determination of the officers and detectives of the police department, the coroner’s office, the GBI, and a vigilant community,” Police Chief Cleveland Spruill said in a statement released Wednesday.