A suspect arrested in the murder of a baseball player from the University of New Mexico

Police in Albuquerque arrested a man on Friday, accusing him of killing a baseball player at the University of New Mexico (UNM) at a popular restaurant last weekend. .

Darian Bashir, 23, was arrested Saturday in an apartment and arrested without incident. He faces a murder leader in the assassination of 23-year-old Jackson Weller.

Weller's friends told the police that the former baseball player was fighting before the shot but that Bashir was not involved, according to the Albuquerque newspaper.

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The video surveillance seems to show that Bashir is committing the crime, officials said. The inspectors say that he was then spotted in a car that was moving at full speed, although he did not know he was driving the vehicle.

The police found Weller at 2:15 pm in the street. He was pronounced dead at the hospital shortly thereafter.

According to the police, three witnesses saw Bashir hold a rifle and two of them said they saw him shooting at Weller and fleeing him.

Bashir was arrested and charged with serious assault with a deadly weapon on February 13 for allegedly firing a weapon in a vehicle, but Judge Richard Brown released Bashir because he had "minimal criminal history" and "no conviction for a crime".

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Tributes for Weller were expected during the UNM baseball team's match against UNLV on Saturday. Ray Birmingham, the UNM coach, tweeted a picture of the team's lineup for the match, with Weller included as the starting pitcher

A large heart-shaped crown with a cross in his baseball glove was also placed on the pitcher's mound behind a large poster bearing the Weller name, the caption saying "We love you Jackson Weller".