Federal agents and Chicago police on Tuesday cordoned off a house on the West Side where they captured a fugitive wanted in an Atlanta murder, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
Members of the Marshals' Great Lakes Fugitive Task Force were working on an Atlanta murder warrant for Shakir Cole when they spotted him an a car and chased him to a house near the intersection of Chicago and Hamlin Avenues, said Geoff Shank, Chief Inspector of the task force.
After being barricaded in the house, Cole was in custody as of about 8:30 p.m. Agents already had a suspected accomplice in custody, Shank said. Additional details on the arrests were not immediately available.
Cole is wanted in a 2006 murder in Atlanta, and marshals tracked him to Chicago recently.
David Heinzmann, Chicago Tribune reporter
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