According to reports, U.S. Marshals Service personnel arrested a fugitive teen wanted on Thursday on charges of murder in connection with a deadly shooting in Wisconsin a few days earlier.
Dezman V. Ellis, 17, was arrested in Iowa four days after the Sunday shooting at Fox River Mall in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, outside Green Bay. The shooting left 19-year-old Jovanni Frausto dead and forced walkers to take shelter while authorities investigated. Another unidentified man was also reportedly shot in the hip.
Ellis is being charged as an adult in the case, Green Bay’s WBAY-TV reported.
His arrest across state lines came “after a thorough 24-hour investigation,” Grand Chute police said, according to WBAY-TV in Green Bay.
Grand Chute police asked the U.S. Marshals Service for assistance after learning that Ellis was likely to leave the state. He was arrested by the US Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force in Des Moines, about 400 miles from the crime scene, without incident, according to the Post-Crescent of Appleton, Wis.
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Dezman V. Ellis, 17, is charged with first degree willful murder.
(Grand Chute Police Department)
Ellis and Frausto reportedly ran into each other randomly at the mall and “started exchanging words” about a girl and at one point Ellis allegedly showed Frausto a gun hidden by his waist.
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“I’ll shoot this place, I’ll kill you,” the suspect said, according to authorities.
Frausto was reportedly unarmed.
Ellis is said to have shot Frausto twice: once in the chest and once in an arm and the back.
After Frausto fell to the floor, Ellis fled the mall, a girl who hung out with the suspect told police.
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The girl told police that she and her friends were going back to their car where Ellis was already waiting for them. She said she was “ scared, ” but drove him back to his apartment in Oshkosh, Wisconsin anyway, the Post-Crescent reported.
After his arrest, Ellis was held in a secure Iowa facility, according to WBAY. He is charged with first degree willful murder.