Shooting Suspect Arrested in 'City of Brotherly Love'

Philly police nab Tulsa shooting suspect

Austin Jamal Duncan

By MATT BARNARD, World Staff Writer

A teenage homicide suspect is behind bars after being arrested nearly 1,300 miles away in Philadelphia, Pa.

Austin Jamal Duncan, 17, was arrested late Monday night in connection with the shooting death of another Tulsa man, Philadelphia homicide detective Michael Cahill said.

A group of U.S. Marshalls and local detectives arrested Duncan without incident as he arrived at a bus station in Philadelphia. The lawmen had been contacted by authorities in Tulsa and were expecting Duncan, who was traveling alone, Cahill said.

"It was a no frills kind of thing," he said. "We went out and snatched this boy."

Tulsa police issued a felony arrest warrant for Duncan on Monday after the weekend murder of Joshua Jordan, 22.

Jordan was outside the Park Plaza Apartments near 51st Street and Sheridan Road when he was shot multiple times, witnesses said. The gunman got into a blue or green Chevrolet Cavalier occupied by several people and left. The shooting was Tulsa's seventh homicide this year.

Duncan is being held without bond in Philadelphia as a fugitive and will have an extradition hearing in three to ten days, Cahill said. After the hearing he will be sent back to Oklahoma. Detectives aren't sure why Duncan fled to Philadelphia. It is unclear if he has family in the area, Cahill said.

Source: Tulsa World