Overview
- Investigators found 17-year-old Skyler Bradford with a gunshot wound to the head inside an Orange County apartment and she later died at a hospital.
- Nineteen-year-old Jehovah Mitchell was arrested on a tampering-with-evidence charge after telling deputies he discarded the firearm behind the building and searches did not turn it up.
- Deputies documented signs of a physical struggle in the apartment, including overturned items, and found two bullet holes in different walls.
- Bradford's mother publicly rejected the boyfriend's account that her daughter shot herself and neighbors told investigators the couple had been loudly arguing for about two weeks.
- The Orange County Sheriff's Office says the death investigation is active, Mitchell has not been charged in the death, and recovery and forensic analysis of the firearm will shape any further charges.