LAWRENCE, MASS. (WHDH) - A 22-year-old Amesbury man was arrested on a murder charge Thursday in connection with the death of a man who was found lying on the ground next to a gun in a Lawrence parking lot on Wednesday morning, officials said.
Niko Bianco has been charged with murder in the death of Ellis J. Wright, of Lynn, the Essex District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
State troopers assigned to the district attorney’s office, along with Lawerence police detectives, arrested Bianco in Manchester, New Hampshire. He has not yet been extradited to Massachusetts.
“I’m very pleased with the outcome of this situation,” Manchester Police Chief Carlo Capano said. “Getting a dangerous person off the streets is always our priority.”
Officers responding to the parking lot on Manchester Street around 5:50 a.m. found Wright next to a gun and a trail of blood that stretched to a location two streets away.
An investigation is ongoing.
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