Suspect surrenders to Glendale police in Phoenix homicide

A 24-year-old woman has been charged with second-degree murder in the weekend shooting death of another woman, police said.

Teayanna Minter is the suspect in the slaying of 29-year-old Ta’Janae Carter, who was found shot just before 5 a.m. June 29 near 3000 West Clarendon Avenue, according to a release from the Phoenix Police Department.

Carter was treated at the scene for gunshot wounds and taken to a hospital where she died.

Detectives took over the investigation and later in the day Minter turned herself in at the Glendale Police Department, authorities stated in the release.

Phoenix police took her into custody, and she has been booked in Maricopa County Jail.

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