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Roanoke murder suspect arrested in New Jersey home

He was wanted for the murder of Michael D. Jackson on June 8.

ROANOKE, Va. – A man was arrested Tuesday in relation to a deadly shooting in Roanoke early June, according to the Roanoke Police Department. 

The 29-year-old man, Shannon Walker, was arrested at a New Jersey home by members of the U.S. Marshals New York/New Jersey task force for the murder of 42-year-old Michael D. Jackson on June 8. 

Roanoke police arrested the other man involved in the case, Derrell Jones, in early June in a Norway Avenue Northwest home. 

According to police, the fatal shooting happened near the Washington Park swimming pool. 

Around midnight, an officer patrolling the 300 block of Orange Avenue NW heard a gunshot. As the officer was responding, a report came in that someone in the 1600 block of Burrell Avenue had been shot. 

Officers discovered a man with a gunshot wound in the parking lot of the LT Store. Emergency crews took him to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:40 a.m.