MOBILE, Alabama March 30 2013 -- A 25-year-old woman is awaiting extradition in Georgia after members of the U.S. Marshals Service arrested her in the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old U.S. Coast Guard member stationed in Mobile.Shaniah Michele Woods, 25, was arrested in the Atlanta area, according to Ashley Rains, public information officer for the Mobile Police Department. She will face one count of murder in the shooting death of Robert "Andrew" A. Roberts.
According to booking records, Woods is being held in the Clayton County, Ga., Detention Facility. She was booked into jail at 1:48 p.m. CDT.
Her home address is listed as an apartment in Jonesboro, Ga., nearly 300 miles from the fatal shooting. She is from Georgia, but was visiting Mobile at the time of the shooting, Rains said.
The connection between Woods and Roberts is unclear, although Rains said the two knew each other.
Roberts was found shot near his clavicle in the parking lot of the Baymont Inn and Suites on West I-65 Service Road South on March 20.
Roberts was pronounced dead on the scene around 9:50 p.m. Officials believe Roberts got into a "physical altercation" with people he knew before the shooting.
He was laid to rest in New York on Wednesday.
Homicide detectives are still investigating the case. Anyone with information is asked to call the Mobile Police Department at 251-208-7211.
Source: AL. com