A homicide suspect who was on the run for months has been caught in Memphis, Tennessee, after he fell by means of the ceiling from his hiding place in a household’s attic.
A warrant for the arrest of Deario Wilkerson, 20, was issued again in April in reference to the dying of Troy Cunningham in Memphis.
However he spent months evading police, who finally managed to trace him all the way down to the house of a member of the family.
As cops entered the house, Wilkerson tried hiding within the attic. However, in accordance with the New York Instances, officers heard ‘loud sounds from the house’ adopted by a ‘loud crash.’
Pictures shared by officers confirmed a big gaping gap within the ceiling, with fragments of plaster and dirt masking the ground under.
Pictures shared by officers confirmed a big gaping gap within the ceiling, with fragments of plaster and dirt masking the ground under
A warrant for the arrest of Deario Wilkerson, 20, (pictured) was issued again in April in reference to a deadly capturing
‘Mr. Wilkerson was not injured from the autumn and was taken into custody with no additional incident,’ the Marshals Service stated of the arrest, which took lower than 10 minutes.
He’s now being held within the metropolis’s Shelby County Jail on a $6million bail.
Wilkerson is one in all three folks charged within the capturing of Cunningham, who was discovered lifeless on April 2 within the metropolis’s Hollywood neighbourhood.
In accordance with an area District Lawyer, cops investigating an incident within the space heard a number of gunshots, and located Cunningham the sidewalk close to Peres and Merton Road, having sustained a deadly gunshot wound to the again of his head.
On prime of this, bullets hit a automobile two girls had been in, with one in all them sustaining a gunshot wound to the shoulder.
The alleged killer was charged with first diploma homicide.
