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US Marshals arrest suspect in fatal shooting of Northeast Ohio rapper
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – U.S. Marshals arrested Devon Jones, 25, in Pennsylvania Thursday in connection to the fatal shooting of a Northeast Ohio rapper.
Northeast Ohio rapper shot and killed in Cleveland
On Dec. 29 around 4 a.m., Cleveland Police officers were dispatched to Broadway Avenue in the Broadway-Slavic Village neighborhood to investigate a shooting.
When officers arrived they found a man, later identified as Carlos Banks, 28, shot multiple times inside 5115 The Rising, an apartment building in the 5100 block of Broadway Avenue.
Banks, also known by the stage name KashBankx, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the release.
The 28-year-old had amassed thousands of social media followers with his rap career.
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Officers later identified Jones as a suspect and issued a warrant for his arrest for aggravated murder.
On Thursday, members of the Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force, with the assistance of the Indiana Borough Police, Indiana County Drug Task Force, Indiana County Sheriff’s Office, Indiana County District Attorney’s Office and the Pennsylvania State Police arrested Jones at a residence in the 200 block of Washington Street, Indiana, Pennsylvania.
Officers seized illegal narcotics at the time of Jones’ arrest and he will be charged with felony drug possession in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
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