Following a multiple day manhunt, a Medford murder suspect is now in custody.
The Medford Police Department reports 18-year-old Jesus Armando Pena, Jr., was arrested on Tuesday in the 300-block of Savage Creek Road -- between the City of Rogue River and Grants Pass along the Jackson-Josephine county line.
MPD detectives and officers had been following up on leads and tracking down the suspect for three days. The MPD SWAT team was used for numerous operations including an attempted contact with the suspect at a residence in the 800-block of Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday morning.
Pena was not located there, but investigators continued to develop information that led them to the Savage Creek Road residence where he was located unarmed and he surrendered peacefully.
Pena was wanted for the fatal shooting that occurred Saturday night at Weldon's Laundromat on Crater Lake Avenue in east Medford. He is accused of shooting and killing 51-year-old Justin William Keaton inside the laundromat before he fled the scene.
Jesus Pena was interviewed and then lodged at the Jackson County Jail on charges of Murder and other related crimes. He recently escaped from the Oregon Youth Authority and had only been in the Medford area a few days before the homicide.
