AVONDALE, AZ (AZFamily) — An 18-year-old was taken to jail on charges unrelated after a teen girl was shot to death at her Avondale apartment last weekend.

Police said on Wednesday that Emilio Andres Rivera was arrested and booked in jail on Saturday on charges not linked to the shooting death. However, the department didn’t specify what those charges were.

Detectives said Rivera was the ex-boyfriend of 17-year-old Rhiana Kemplin.

She was found shot just before 6:30 a.m. at the Rio Santa Fe Apartments , near Dysart Road and McDowell Road , on Saturday. She died at the hospital. According to a verified GoFundMe page , Kemplin was asleep when she was shot.

She was interested in cosmetology and looked forward to graduating from Agua Fria High School, where she was a senior and

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