Murder suspect dies Tuesday following shootout with Fayetteville police, chief says

A man wanted in a Fayetteville homicide was pronounced dead following a shootout with police Tuesday, Chief Kemberle Braden said.

The man, whose name was not released, was wanted on charges of first-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a felon and felony conspiracy. When officers went to the Kings Cross Apartment on Ivanhoe Court about 9:20 a.m., Braden said, the suspect "barricaded himself" inside an apartment.

Braden said officers attempted to make contact with the suspect until about 1 p.m. before shots were fired from inside the residence then the suspect emerged and exchanged gunfire with three members of the Violent Criminal Apprehension Team. The wanted suspect was hit, and pronounced dead at the hospital, the chief said.

The State Bureau of Investigation has been called in to conduct a probe into the shooting, and an administrative investigation is being conducted by the department's Internal Affairs Unit, Braden said. None of the officers were injured, he said.

Braden declined to release the suspect's name or information on the homicide in which he was suspected of being involved.

Public safety reporter Joseph Pierre can be reached at jpierre@gannett.com .

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