TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - The Tucson Police Department identified 40-year-old Joshua Vincent Lee Poe as a suspect in an August shooting, after detaining him for a different murder two months later.

Tucson Police responded to reports of a shooting on Saturday, August 23, near the 900 block of South Warren Avenue.

Officers were directed east to a wash, where 56-year-old Matthew Erik Simmerman was found with severe gunshot trauma.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The TPD say evidence suggests Simmerman had been living in the wash with a female companion when Poe approached him on foot and shot him.

Poe was arrested nearly two months later, on Tuesday, October 21, for the separate murder of 25-year-old Alec Richard Newling two days prior .

Forensic evidence from both cases gave TPD

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