Stephen Morgan, 29, the suspect in the Wesleyan University shooting which resulted in the death of Johanna Justin-Jinich yesterday, has been arrested.
Police state that Morgan surrendered Thursday night after seeing his photo in a newspaper. He was taken into custody about 9:15 PM EDT after stopping at a Cumberland Farms convenience store in Meriden, about 10 miles from the Wesleyan University campus, and seeing his picture in a newspaper in the store.
Morgan is being held on $10 million bond and is due in court Friday morning.
21-year-old Johanna Justin-Jinich was shot several times inside the Broad Street Book Store on the Wesleyan University campus at about 1 PM Wednesday. Authorities have said the two have known each other since at least 2007, when Justin-Jinich filed a harassment complaint against him while they were both enrolled in a summer class at New York University.
Inside Morgan's car police said they found a journal in which he outlined plan to rape and kill Justin-Jinich. He then planned on a campus shooting spree.
Our earlier story indicated that Morgan had expressed threats toward Wesleyan University and Jewish students, but police at the time did not elaborate; the university has said that police told school officials Morgan had expressed such threats in his personal journals.
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