KNIGHTDALE, N.C. (WNCN) — A man from Virginia has been arrested and charged in a shooting outside a Knightdale sports bar over a week ago that left a man seriously injured, police said.

The Knightdale Police Department responded to a fight at the Sports Page Bar & Grill on North Smithfield Road just before 2 a.m. on May 25. As they arrived on scene, officers heard several gunshots. They then found a 32-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds in the parking lot outside the business.

The suspect fled the scene after the shooting, police said, "prompting a nine-day manhunt by law enforcement". Police said 39-year-old Ray Shawn Austin of Petersburg, Va. was eventually identified as the suspect.

On Tuesday, Knightdale police said Austin had been "tracked" to the home of a friend on Garage

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