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Police: Suspected Shooter in Briggs Chaney Murder Arrested in Tenn.

Tyshon Jones, 20, will be extradited to Montgomery County to face murder charges in the 2010 shooting death of a Silver Spring resident.

A man accused of pulling the trigger in the 2010 fatal shooting of Julian Kelly was arrested Sunday in Knoxville, TN, after evading police for more than two years. 

Tyson Jones, now 20, was identified by Montgomery County Police in September 2010 as one of four suspects involved in the beating and shooting of Kelly, 27. Police said Kelly was beaten by a group of males while walking home from a bus stop near the 14000 block of Castle Boulevard in Briggs Chaney on Aug. 21, 2010. He was shot four times and died of the injuries on Sept. 4, 2010. 

Police said a warrant for Jones' arrest was issued Sept. 7, 2010. Jones was detained by local police in Knoxville on assault and disorderly conduct charges when the authorities discovered he was wanted in Montgomery County, police said in a statement Tuesday. Jones will be returned to the county after extradition hearings conclude, police said. 

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While three suspects were apprehended immediately, Jones remained at-large, even as Kelly's family pleaded for information and police increased the reward for information on Jones' whereabouts. 

Two suspects, Shamire Moore, now 21, and Charles Baxter, now 25, were tried for first-degree murder in December 2011 with state prosecutors arguing that Moore and Baxter participated in a mob beating of Kelly before he was fatally shot by Jones. A third suspect's case was resolved in juvenile court. 

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Moore was found guilty of second-degree assault and conspiracy to commit second-degree assault. Moore is serving a five-year prison sentence. 

Baxter was acquitted of all charges by a jury on Dec. 21, 2011. 

Defense attorneys argued that Moore fought Kelly and would have lost the battle if Baxter had not jumped in to help. The defense argued that their clients were not involved in Kelly's shooting. 

Read more about the police's search for Jones and the murder trial on Colesville Patch


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