Authorities on Wednesday said a man wanted for the murder of a woman inside a Walmart nearly a month earlier was arrested this week.
According to the Lumberton Police Department, 17-year-old Ezekiel Burden was arrested on Tuesday while trying to board a Greyhound bus in Chicago, Ill.
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Burden and 18-year-old Brian Campbell were wanted for the shooting death of Brandy Nicole Olson, who was shot on Dec. 20 at a bank inside a Lumberton Walmart.
According to police at the time, Burden and Campbell were targeting two people they knew who were standing at the bank, and that Olson was an innocent bystander.
The State Bureau of Investigation arrested Campbell and charged him with accessory after the fact to a felony.
Burnden is charged with first-degree murder and is at a Chicago jail awaiting extradition back to North Carolina.