A Gwinnett County fugitive wanted for murder and shooting another man in the groin was arrested late Wednesday, police said.
According to police reports, Jamad Jacque Wallace, 21, fatally shot a man in the head outside a CVS pharmacy on Grayson Highway near Lawrenceville on March 4, 2012.
The victim, 27-year-old Alex Delgado Ramos, died two days later at an area hospital.
Descriptions of the shooter matched Wallace, who had been on the run from Gwinnett County police since another shooting in December 2011.
Police say on the afternoon of Dec. 9, 2011, officers were called to the intersection of Rockwood Way and Big Creek Terrace near Stone Mountain, where they found John Lumpkin, 23, lying on his back with his shirt off.
Lumpkin complained of having been shot in the groin, according to police reports.
Officers on the scene were able to identify Wallace from witness reports and from information from a previous, unrelated incident call, police said.
“He has been on the run ever since,” Gwinnett County police spokesman Cpl. Jake Smith said.
Smith said Wallace, who lives in unincorporated Stone Mountain, was arrested in DeKalb County and turned over to Gwinnett police.
He is also wanted for a burglary in Perry, near Warner Robins, according to Houston County Sheriff’s Department officials.
Wallace was convicted in 2010 under the state’s first-time offender program of armed robbery after aggravated assault, street gang and gun possession charges were dropped for a 2008 incident, according to Gwinnett County court records.
He was sentenced to one year in jail and four years of probation.
His probation was revoked, however, in May of 2011.
The circumstances of Wallace’s arrest are unclear at this time.
He faces charges for murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, among others, and is being held without bond at the Gwinnett County Jail.
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