LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Little Rock police Department announced on Thursday that they arrested a man in connection with a shooting that was later upgraded to a homicide.

LRPD stated in a social media post that 19-year-old Markell Wiley was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with first-degree murder.

A warrant was put out for Wiley's arrest on Wednesday after the victim of the shooting at the 8200 block of Geyer Springs, 46-year-old Anthony King, died from his injuries.

On September 6, Officers were sent to a local hospital after being alerted that King had arrived with gunshot wounds to his abdomen.

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