Suspect in convenience store owner's death caught in S.C.
A man sought in the shooting death last month of a Fayetteville convenience store owner was apprehended Wednesday in South Carolina, police said.
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Members of the Violent Fugitives Task Force, which includes local, state and federal law enforcement agents, found Michael Antoine McLaurin, 27, hiding in a wooded area of Darlington County, S.C. He is being held in jail there pending extradition to Fayetteville.
McLaurin is charged with first-degree murder, discharging a weapon into an occupied vehicle and possession of a firearm by a felon.
The charges stem from the June 27 slaying of Waheed Abdulla, 30, the owner of Ya-Ya Food Mart, 3122 Murchison Road. Police said Abdulla went outside to break up a disturbance and was hit by a stray bullet.
A second man, Shane Tradale Johnson, 20, of 545 Hilliard Drive in Fayetteville, is wanted on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the case.
Anyone with information about Johnson's whereabouts is asked to call Fayetteville police at 910-433-1856 or Crime Stoppers at 910-483-8477 (TIPS).
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