The Metropolitan Police Department apprehended a suspect connected to a fatal shooting in Southeast D.C., bringing a momentary close to the city's search for the perpetrator. According to a press release from the MPD, the incident, which claimed the life of 32-year-old Thomas Carlos Felder, unfolded on the afternoon of May 1, when police were alerted to gunfire on the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Officers from the First District arrived at the scene around 12:23 p.m. and discovered Felder with gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Felder was identified as a man without a fixed address.
The hunt ended yesterday when James Rice, a 26-year-old resident of Southeast, DC, was arrested by the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force under a DC Superior Court arrest warrant, he's been charged with First Degree Murder while Armed (Premeditated).
