PHILADELPHIA — The suspect wanted for questioning in a Schenectady murder was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service in Philadelphia on Friday.
Timothy Taylor, 35, was arrested at approximately 11:20 a.m., the federal agency announced on Friday.
Taylor is a person of interest in the May 28 stabbing death of his ex-wife Tishawn Folkes-Taylor, who was found dead on Sunday morning in her home at 1030 Pleasant St.
Taylor is also a suspect in the May 13 stabbing murder of Theresa Gregg in Brooklyn.
Taylor also faces three criminal contempt warrants issued by Schenectady City Court.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, the agency received information Taylor may have fled to Philadelphia on Wednesday. The agency then searched locations where Taylor might be hiding for two days.
On Friday at 9:30 a.m., members of the fugitive task force received information Taylor may have been in Center City, Philadelphia. Deputy marshals were joined by Philadelphia police units in surrounding the area and at 11:20 a.m. a man resembling Taylor wearing a hoodie, bandanna and sunglasses was seen sitting at a bar in the 1100 block of Chestnut Street.
He was surrounded by deputy marshals and task force officers and positively identified as Taylor. He was arrested and taken to Philadelphia Police Headquarters. “Our thoughts are with the children who suffered through this horrific domestic violence, and hope they find some semblance of peace and closure in Taylor’s arrest,” Eric Gartner, U.S. marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, said in a statement.
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