Shortly before 8:00 this morning, Metropolitan Police Sergeant Mike Jamieson and Officer Todd Mattingly, both of whom are assigned to the Fourth District, apprehended 45-year-old Shane S. DeLeon, who was wanted on a D.C. Superior Court arrest warrant charging him as an escapee. The warrant was issued after he failed to return to a half-way house. On April 8, 1999, DeLeon was arrested and charged with Second Degree Murder in connection with the hit-and-run death of 18-year-old Matthew Edwin O'Dell. O'Dell was hit by a truck on January 29, 1999 while he was roller-blading in the 3800 block of Nebraska Avenue, NW.

DeLeon was apprehended, without incident, at the Greyhound/Trailways bus terminal, located at First and L Streets, NE. At the time of his arrest, he was in possession of a bus ticket to Ocean City, Maryland.

The arrest came as the result of a citizen recognizing DeLeon at the bus terminal and notifying police scheduled to attend hearings held inside of the Bureau of Traffic Adjudication, located at 65 K Street, NE. Sergeant Jamieson and Officer Mattingly then responded to the bus terminal where they located DeLeon.