A man accused of killing his brother on Easter in Massachusetts has been arrested in Maine.
Jeremiah Abreu, 20, of Brockton, Massachusetts, faces charges of homicide, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, assault and battery with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building and domestic assault and battery, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Abreu allegedly shot his brother, 27-year-old Sederick Abreu, about 2:17 a.m. Sunday inside a Hoover Avenue home in Brockton, CBS affiliate WBZ reported.
Sederick Abreu was taken to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, where he succumbed to a gunshot wound to the chest, according to WBZ.
Two other people, 24-year-old Sirick Amado and 26-year-old Antonio Dejesus, have been charged as accessories to the homicide, the TV station reported.
Authorities haven’t disclosed a motive for the shooting, though witnesses reportedly heard fighting and yelling at the home the night before.
Abreu was tracked to Lewiston, where police stopped him while in a vehicle traveling on Pleasant Street on Tuesday, according to the Lewiston Police Department.
He was arrested without incident, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Abreu has been charged as being a fugitive from justice, and is being held at the Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn. He will be arraigned in Maine pending his extradition back to Massachusetts.
During the traffic stop, a second man in the vehicle, 22-year-old Dominic Peterson of Brockton, Massachusetts, refused to identify himself and police found a firearm on him. He was taken to the Lewiston police station, where his identity was confirmed and he was charged with failure to provide correct identification, illegal possession of a firearm and being a fugitive from justice, according to Lewiston police.
He also faces charges of assault and battery on a family member, assault with a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of ammunition, carrying a firearm without a license and carrying a loaded firearm without a license related to warrants out of Massachusetts, according to Lewiston police.