Arrest Made In Delco Teen's Fatal Shooting On SEPTA Bus

PHILADELPHIA — Federal authorities took a teenager into custody in connection with a SEPTAshooting on March 22 that took a Delaware County boy's life.

According to the U.S. Marshals Service, Zayki Davis, 17, was taken into custody at an apartment complex in the 1000 block of West Beech Street in Norristown Thursday.

Davis was wanted by Philadelphia Police for murder in relation to the shooting death ofZahkir Whitfield, 15,of Upper Darby, on a SEPTA bus in late March.

Authorities said Davis got off the bus after a verbal dispute, fired one round into the bus,striking Whitfield.

Police took the boy to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

At about noon Thursday, investigators from the Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Philadelphia surrounded an apartment complex in the 1000 block of West Beech Street in Norristown.

Marshals developed information Davis was in the apartment of a long-time friend, where hehad been hiding there for days.

Once authorities got into the apartment,Davis was quickly located and arrested without incident.

He was taken to Philadelphia Police headquarters by homicide detectives.

"Though Zayki Davis fled Philadelphia, with this task force pursuing him, his freedom was always on borrowed time,"Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Robert Clark said.