After eluding police for nine months, Antonio Marcus Bell was captured Sunday and charged with the Jan. 30 murder of Walter Lee Jones.

Jones, 28, was shot and killed outside a residence in the 1300 block of Mabry Street sometime during the late evening of Jan. 30.

According to police reports, the victim sustained gun shot wounds to the head and side and was pronounced dead on the scene by Dallas County Corner Alan Daily.

A few weeks later Selma police named the 20-year-old Bell as one of their primary suspects in the case and joined forces with the Dallas County Sheriff’s Department to conduct a county-wide search for him.

Crime Stoppers had also asked for the public’s help in locating the suspect and listed him as “armed and dangerous.”

Officers Fredrick Walker, Phillip Fields, Harry Tubbs, Brian Dixon, Reginald Fitts and Sgt. Sam Miller, along with Dallas County Sheriff’s Sgt. David Odom and his canine partner Pattie, arrested Bell around 10 p.m. Sunday at 1013 Church Street.

Capt. Anita Barlow said the officers were acting on a tip that suspect would be at a certain Selma location and conducted a search of the area.

“They have been looking for him for a long time,” Barlow said.

Bell was charged with murder and first-degree assault.

The assault charge, Barlow says, stems from a separate Sept. 15 shooting on Lawrence Street in which one person was injured. Kendrick Mitchell, 20, sustained a gunshot wound to the leg during the incident.

“This was our second arrest related the assault,” Barlow said. “Daniel McReynold, 25, was arrested and charged with first-degree assault on Oct. 24.”

Bell was taken to the Dallas County Jail where he is being held pending a bond hearing. Barlow said other information, such as where Bell had been hiding for the past several months, could not be released due to the ongoing investigation.