Billy Thomas Pearson, a suspect in the Oct. 25 shooting death of William Gary Stephens Jr., was arrested by Madison County, Ga., sheriff's deputies after they received information on the vehicle he was driving.
The vehicle was not the same one Pearson reportedly was driving when he left the shooting scene.
Also taken into custody Tuesday was Stephanie Lynn Arwood, who reportedly left the shooting scene with Pearson. Arwood was arrested by Clark County sheriff's deputies and charged with being an accessory after the fact of homicide.
Pearson has not waived extradition to North Carolina. Arwood did, and Harnett County detectives have gone to Georgia to pick her up.
The shooting of Stephens, from Jefferson, Ga., occurred in the front yard of a residence lon Dixon Road in Coats. He was transported to Good Hope Hospital and later flown to Duke, where he was pronounced dead at approximately 11:22 p.m. Oct. 25.
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