Man accused of killing GA high school football player captured 1 year later WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — U.S Marshals have taken a man into custody one year after a Georgia high school football player was gunned down near his home.

Brunswick High School running back Mykal Ellis was shot and killed on his way home from football practice in June 2023. Police said he was an innocent bystander that got caught in the crossfire.

“Just a great intelligent young man, caregiver, just cared about everyone that he hung around. Was never a troublemaker,” his brother Syveion Ellis told Channel 2′s sister station Action News Jax.

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Investigators identified Breon Hartley as a suspect and arrested one of his associates Diandra Hightower.

Hartley remained on the run until Thursday when U.S. Marshals took him into custody in Jacksonville. He will be extradited back to Glynn County where he will faces murder and possession of a firearm charges.

“Almost a year ago, when he was taken from us, I …