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Update: Search over, suspect arrested
Posted: 12.31.2011 at 4:08 PM
Rachel Welte

Rachel Welte is the Weekend News Anchor and a General Assignment Reporter.

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Rayshawn Laster was arrested early Saturday morning in the Parking lot of a local Burger King.  / Courtesy: El Paso County Sheriff's Office
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SECURITY, COLO. -- The El Paso County Sheriff's Office has confirmed 26-year-old Rayshawn Laster has been arrested.

Law enforcement officals spent Friday night and Saturday morning searching for Laster, the suspect in a deadly shooting.

Lt. Lari Sevene said Laster was found in the parking lot of the Burger King on the corner of Union Boulevard and Platte Avenue around 4:30 Saturday morning.

She said he was taken to the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center where he is facing charges of First Degree Murder.

Laster is accused of shooting 49-year-old Brenda Taylor in the head Friday night.

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Taylor was taken to a local hosptial, where she later died.

An autopsy was conducted, and officals confirmed her death to be a homicide.

Sevene said following the shooting, Laster attempted a carjacking in the 200 block of Fontaine Boulevard near Uncle Fred's Tavern.

She said the investigation is ongoing.

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