A Savannah man charged with a March 17 homicide and shooting in the city was arrested in South Carolina on Tuesday by local and federal police.
Detectives here are awaiting extradition of James Harris Jr. to Chatham County from the Beaufort County, S.C., jail, said Julian Miller, Savannah-Chatham police spokesman.
Harris, 28, is charged with murder and aggravated assault in a March 17 double shooting on the 2000 block of Mississippi Avenue that killed 24-year-old Barry Trevon Williams and left a 25-year-old man injured.
At about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, members of the U.S. Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, with assistance of the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office and Bluffton Police Department, arrested Harris on the 2000 block of Simmonsville Road in Bluffton, Miller said.
Harris’s extradition date has not yet been scheduled.