The Chapel Hill Police Department have charged a Chapel Hill man with first-degree murder in connection with a shooting in the Northside neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.

William Albert Stroud, 27, of 222 Knolls St., was apprehended by police after he was located with his vehicle on Crest Drive. Police had received information that the suspect had fled the scene of the shooting, near Sykes Street and Gomains Avenue, in a burgundy Chevrolet Cavalier.

The victim, Marshall Ralph Brown, 51, was found by police lying on the ground with a gunshot wound to the back and died later at UNC Hospitals.

Stroud is being held without bond at the Orange County Jail.

— Staff Reports