'Most wanted' fugitive, 17, charged with murder of fast food manager, arrested

A 17-year-old fugitive who had been on the Texas 10 Most Wanted list since July in connection with the fatal shooting of a Sonic manager has been arrested. FOX 4 News Reports.

Adiah Roberson17, who is accused of murder Daniel Shrewsbury While working the night shift at a Sonic restaurant in San Antonio on July 7, he was captured in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Dallas on Tuesday (October 22). The teenager was booked into the Dallas County Jail on murder and forgery charges.

Shrewsbury reportedly got into an argument with Roberson and two others after the group attempted to pay with counterfeit money. The Sonic manager attempted to take a photo of the license plate of the vehicle the group was driving in as they left the restaurant, San Antonio police confirmed FOX 4 News.

Joshua JosephThe 27-year-old, who was arrested and charged with murder in August, allegedly threatened that Shrewsbury would be shot if he tried to take the photo just before Roberson got out of the vehicle, opened fire and fled the scene. Shrewsbury was pronounced dead at the restaurant.

A witness who was at the drive-thru during the incident claimed he heard three gunshots and saw an employee run out of the restaurant, claiming his co-worker had been shot.

“I was sitting in line on the phone. And I heard what it sounded like first: the first shot. But I didn’t really realize that was it,” the witness said KENS5 in July. “And then I heard two more shots and I thought, 'Okay, something's happening here.' I tried to get out of there, basically I was scared.”

Roberson was believed to have been moving around the state of Texas in the months before her arrest. The 17-year-old is being held on $520,000 bond and a decision has not yet been made as to whether she will be sentenced as a juvenile. However, suspects under 18 who are tried as adults in Texas receive an automatic life sentence with the possibility of parole after 40 years if convicted under the state's penal code.