By Associated Press - Wednesday, May 2, 2018

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - The suspect in a fatal daytime shooting in Connecticut last month has been arrested by U.S. Marshals in North Carolina.

The New Haven Register reports that 34-year-old Elias Rivers was taken into custody Monday in Mount Olive, North Carolina, about 70 miles southeast of Raleigh.

Police say Rivers is a suspect in the shooting in New Haven at about mid-day April 11 of 35-year-old Eric Lewis.



Lewis was struck in the chest and pronounced dead at Yale New Haven Hospital.

Rivers is charged with murder, criminal possession of a firearm by a felon and carrying a pistol without a permit. He is being held in North Carolina in lieu of $2 million bail. It could not be determined if he has a lawyer.

Police have not released a motive.

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Information from: New Haven Register, http://www.nhregister.com

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