JEDDAH: Two people were arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a Saudi scholarship student at the Wichita State University campus on Saturday.

According to American newspapers, the suspects — a 23-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman — were arrested shortly after 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Wichita deputy police chief Hassan Ramzah said.

Law enforcement records indicate Isaiah Copridge, 23, and Eboni Fingal, 19, have been booked into the Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of first-degree murder.

Wichita police officers responding to a report of a man down in the parking lot of Fairmount Towers, 2221 N. Hillside, at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday morning found Rayan Ibrahim Baba, who had been shot several times, Ramzah said. Baba, 23, was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Detectives worked “tirelessly” through the night, Ramzah said. Interviews, along with evidence found at the scene, led authorities to the two suspects who were arrested.

“This was not a random act,” Ramzah was quoted as saying by the Wichita Eagle newspaper.

Baba was acquainted with the two suspects and made arrangements to meet them at Fairmount Towers, where he lived, Ramzah said. He was fatally wounded there in the parking lot.

Baba was a Saudi undergraduate student majoring in electrical engineering, according to Abdulrahman Alotaibi, vice president of the Saudi Student Association at Wichita State.

In a statement released Monday afternoon, WSU president John Bardo said Baba had enrolled at WSU for the spring semester in the College of Engineering.

"Our hearts go out to the loved ones of the deceased,” Bardo said in the statement.

"We're very appreciative of the excellent police work leading to the identification of suspects in his death Saturday morning,” Bardo said. “To the best of our knowledge, neither suspect has an affiliation with WSU.”