CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (WHDH) - A 31-year-old Philadelphia man accused of shooting and killing his father with an assault rifle was tracked down and arrested in Cambridge on Tuesday after Harvard University issued a shelter-in-place order.
Sohan Panjrolia was wanted on homicide charges stemming from the shooting death of his father on Saturday, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.
When deputy marshals in Philadelphia learned that Panjrolia may have traveled to Cambridge Monday, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Boston alerted state and local police and assisted with the search, officials said.
A trooper allegedly found the 2019 Camry Panjrolia was believed to be driving in the Elliott Street parking garage in Harvard Square, state police said.
Law enforcement officials set up surveillance and allegedly saw a person matching Panjrolia’s description at 12:30 p.m. at the Ben & Jerry’s around the corner from the garage.
They allegedly confirmed his identity and he was taken into custody on John F. Kennedy Street and taken to the Cambridge Police Department, where he was processed as a fugitive from justice at Cambridge District Court.
“We all breathed a huge sigh of relief when we were able to take him into custody without incident,” Cambridge Police Commissioner Branville Bard said.
Panjrolia previously attended Harvard Extension School.
Investigators are now looking into the rental car Panjrolia was using when he arrived in Cambridge in the hopes of locating the assault rifle he allegedly used to kill his father.
He was taken into custody back in 2010 in connection with an undisclosed domestic incident.
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