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After a weeks-long man hut, U.S. Marshals arrested a suspect in West Virginia on Tuesday in connection to the fatal shooting of a teenager that took place in Georgetown on July 8.

Demarius Anton Jackson was arrested in Morgantown, West Va. for the murder of 19-year-old Kennedy Javier Amaya-Olivares, of Severn Md., according to Terry Moore, spokesperson for the U.S. Marshal Service for the Northern District of West Virginia.

Officials accuse Jackson of fatally shooting Amaya-Olivares near the Georgetown waterfront around 3 a.m. on July 8, according to a D.C. police release. He was found dead at the scene.

Police also found another man suffering from gunshot wounds who was taken to a local hospital.

According to friends, Amaya-Olivares was an aspiring rapper who went by the name “lil flacko.” His grandmother hung his picture under the Whitehurst Freeway Bridge, according to WJLA. “We’re loss for words, we can’t believe this happened to Kennedy. Why Kennedy?” said Amaya-Olivares’s cousin, Elsa Canales, at a vigil.

On August 15, D.C. police released Jackson’s photo as a suspect in the case and asked for the public’s assistance in locating him. Officials said they obtained a warrant for second degree murder while armed, adding that Jackson was to be considered “armed and dangerous.”

The Marshal’s Capital Area Regional Fugitive Taskforce received a tip that Jackson was hiding in Morgantown after fleeing the District, according to Moore. Surveillance footage captured Jackson walking along a downtown street and officials took him into custody without incident.

Moore said that Jackson appeared in U.S. District Court in West Virginia and will return to the District for a hearing at D.C. Superior Court.