Texas murder suspect captured after being recognized at hospital, police say
.jpg "The search for murder suspect Jermichael Maxie of Terrell is over. He was in custody Monday.")
A Terrell man accused of fatally shooting two men over the weekend and then fleeing was captured Monday morning at a hospital where a technician recognized him from media coverage of the killings, police said.
Hours after the shooting deaths of two men in Terrell Saturday evening, police released the suspect’s name and photograph in the hope that someone would recognize him.
Jermicheal D. Maxie checked himself into Dallas Presbyterian Hospital about 9:30 a.m. Monday for an unknown medical issue, police said. The technician recognized him, called Dallas police and they confirmed he was the murder suspect and arrested him, police said.
Maxie, 29, was in the custody of Terrell police Monday afternoon, accused of killing two men at different locations in Terrell Saturday evening. The city is about 65 miles east of Fort Worth.
Maxie’s also a person of interest in a carjacking that occurred just minutes after the shootings.
Terrell police Capt. Arley Sansom said in an email that media coverage led to the quick arrest.
Police have not released any information on a motive in the shootings, but they said Maxie had “close ties to both victims.”
Police got the first shooting call at 5:48 p. m. Saturday in the 300 block of Cottage Street. Kenneth White Jr., 37, of Terrell, was found shot to death there.
At 5:51 p.m., police were called to another shooting in the 700 block of Frazier Street, about a mile from Cottage Street. There they found Markiest Lucky, 25, of Terrell, also dead from gunshot wound.
Police have said the shootings were related.
At 6:09 p.m., an armed suspect carjacked a vehicle from a woman in the 100 block of W. Main St., about a mile from the Frazier Street shooting. She was uninjured.
The woman, an employee of the Terrell school district, told police an armed African-American man wearing all black attempted to force her back into her vehicle, but she fled. The suspect stole her 2010 Lincoln and her cellphone..
A few hours later, the vehicle was found in Rowlett.
Maxie had not been charged in the carjacking, but he was a person of interest, Sansom said in a news release Monday.
This story was originally published January 14, 2019 at 11:17 AM.
