Suspect in south Lansing murder, assaults arrested in Mississippi

GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI - A man wanted in connection with a shooting that left one man dead and two others injured last month in south Lansing was arrested Friday morning in southern Mississippi.

Kyvon Deandre Wells, 20, of Lansing, was arrested without incident by the U.S. Marshals Service and police in the city of Gulfport, Lansing police said in a news release.

He was being held in the Harrison County Jail pending extradition to Michigan.

Wells is charged with open murder and three other felony charges in connection with the death of Delayno Raymont Hudson and the shooting of a 22-year-old Lansing man and a 66-year-old Haslett man.

All three victims were in a sedan that crashed into a parked vehicle in a mobile home park off Willoughby Road on the evening of March 1. A man police later identified as Wells ran from the scene.

Lansing police Public Information Director Robert Merritt said detectives received information that Wells may have been heading toward Mississippi and worked with the Marshals Service and the Michigan State Police 1st District Fugitive Team to locate him.

Officials did not explain the circumstances surrounding Friday's arrest in Mississippi.

Besides the murder charge, Wells faces two counts of assault with intent to murder and one count of felony firearm possession.

It was unclear how long the extradition process might take, Merritt said.

Ken Palmer at (517) 377-1032 or kpalmer@lsj.com. Follow him on Twitter @KBPalm_lsj.