MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) - A 19-year-old man accused in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man in Burlington last week has been arrested.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports Christian Flores was arrested about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday by a Mount Vernon police officer, Burlington police Sgt. Mike Lumpkin said.
The officer was contacting a suspicious person at a park, Lumpkin said. The man gave a fake name, but was later determined to be Flores. Flores was unarmed and arrested, Lumpkin said.
Flores had been on the run since Friday, after police say he shot and killed Douglas Gunter at the Big Skagit Mini-Mart in Burlington.
Flores has been charged in Skagit County Superior Court with first-degree premeditated murder with a firearm enhancement. His bail is set at $2 million.
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