SEATTLE — Hours after the Seattle Police Department announced that they were looking for a suspect accused of shooting and killing a gas station clerk, a new update was just issued that the suspect had been arrested.
Police believe 33-year-old Michael O’Neal Fleming was involved in shooting and killing a 36-year-old gas station clerk in Belltown last week.
The clerk was found shot to death behind the counter at a 76 Station on Broad Street.
SPD put out a wanted blotter for O’Neal Fleming at 11:36 a.m.
By 5:48 p.m., they learned that O’Neal Fleming had been arrested in Chicago, Illinois by the U.S. Marshals Service.
O’Neal Fleming will later be extradited to Seattle.
He has been officially charged by the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
This is a developing story.