Murder suspect who topped FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, found
A fugitive on the run since 2014 for the murder of fiancée has been captured and is in custody, authorities say
A man who topped the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list after he was accused of murdering his fiancée then fled and fell off the radar, has now been found, CNN reports.
On Thursday, Lamont Stephenson was arrested by Prince George’s County Police Department in Maryland in connection with the 2014 death of his fiancée, Olga DeJesus, and her dog, according to an FBI press release.
Stephenson was also wanted in the brutal stabbing murder of 40-year-old Natina Kiah, according to police spokesperson Kristen Metzger that reportedly happened on Wednesday.
The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington responded to a welfare check call and found Kiah and her cat dead from stab wounds at a residence. The woman and her cat were pronounced dead at the scene.
“My baby’s gone, but I feel so happy and so blessed that they got him,” said Kiah’s mother, Jennifer Wallace, at her family’s home in Temple Hills, Maryland.
“That was my only child,” she added. “He took it away from me. He took it away from me, but he will not take my joy.”
“Why?” said Kiah’s daughter Timeia Clark, as she cried. “My mom’s not going to be there for my graduation or my prom. Just why? Why did they have to do it?”
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“That was senseless, brutalist murder,” said Timothy Clark, the father of Kiah’s children, according to NBC Washington. “He just left four young women without a mother.”
Police were responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle on Thursday when they arrested Stephenson.
Stephenson reportedly has been on the lam since 2014. He was accused of asphyxiating DeJesus, and her chihuahua on October 17, 2014 in an apartment she shared with the suspect in Newark, New Jersey.
A federal arrest warrant was issued on September 8, 2017, by the United States District Court of New Jersey. Stephenson was charged with homicide. The FBI believed he left the area to avoid prosecution.
Stephenson was added to the Most Wanted list last October and $100,000 reward was offered for information on Stephenson.
