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Man arrested after UTC student killed in robbery at Hixson Pike apartment complex

Chattanooga police work a shooting Tuesday afternoon at River City North Apartment Homes in the 3800 block of Hixson Pike.
Chattanooga police work a shooting Tuesday afternoon at River City North Apartment Homes in the 3800 block of Hixson Pike.
photo Mohammad Sharifi

Just hours after he was suspected of killing a UTC student Tuesday in Hixson, the alleged shooter took to Facebook to share a local TV news story about the attack.

The accompanying message? A series of four laughing emojis.

“You shared this and laughed?” wrote one commenter. ” … I hope they never let you out since you don’t have any respect for living breathing human beings.”

Later Tuesday, police arrested 20-year-old D’Marcus White and charged him with criminal homicide and aggravated robbery in the shooting death of 24-year-old Mohammad Sharifi.

Police say Sharifi was trying to sell his XBox One to White when he was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Hixson Pike apartment complex.