Teenager arrested for fatally shooting 12-year-old boy in National City

Four months after a 12-year-old boy was shot and killed during a party at an abandoned National City house, police announced the arrest of a suspect Thursday. Carlos Maldonado, 18, was arrested on suspicion of murder and multiple weapons charges in the death of seventh-grader Elijah Smith. The boy was shot at the home on Avenue N near Ninth Street shortly before midnight on November 15, National City police said. No details about the arrest were…