Police in Massachusetts have arrested a fugitive in connection with a February shooting that left an Atlanta man dead in front of his home.
Harrison Joseph Ogbunize was apprehended early Thursday without incident at an apartment in Springfield, Massachusetts, State Police said.
The 34-year-old is wanted in the Feb. 17 shooting death of Robert Levy Jr., who was 32 when he was shot to death in the 200 block of Crumley Street. Police arrived about 8:15 on a Sunday night to find Levy lying dead on the ground in front of his apartment with the front door open. He had been shot in the head.
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On the night of the killing, surveillance footage from a convenience store showed three persons of interest emerging from a black Cadillac Escalade, which was identified by a neighbor as the vehicle she saw leaving the scene of the crime.
“She stated she looked out the window (and) saw someone run out of her neighbor’s apartment and jump into a black (Cadillac) Escalade and leave the scene,” Atlanta police spokeswoman Officer Stephanie Brown said in a statement at the time.
Homicide detectives later determined drugs were in the home and the victim invited the suspected shooter inside, where a fight broke out.
Massachusetts police said Ogbunize is the second suspect in the case to be arrested in the Springfield area. He is still being held there as an extradition hearing is being worked out for his return to Atlanta.
In a separate case, Ogbunize is charged with attempted murder after being identified as a suspect in a Sept. 2 stabbing outside a St. Albans, Vermont, hotel that left a man critically wounded.
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