Marquis Poteat Arrested In South Carolina For Shooting Death Of MTA Mobility Driver Frankye Duckett
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) Police have arrested 33-year-old Marquis Poteat in the murder of Frankye Duckett, who was fatally shot earlier this year while on the job as an MTA mobility driver in Baltimore.
Duckett was shot inside an MTA bus in northeast Baltimore as he was dropping off a passenger at the end of January.
Poteat was arrested in Florence, South Carolina, with help from the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force. He’s being held in a Florence County jail while he awaits extradition back to Baltimore later this month.
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The man wanted in the January killing of a Maryland Transit Administration mobility driver has been arrested in South Carolina, police said Tuesday.
Marquis Poteat was arrested in Florence, South Carolina, with the help of U.S. marshals and Florence County sheriff s deputies.
Poteat, 33, is awaiting extradition. When he is returned to Baltimore, Poteat will be charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault and firearms violations.
Frankye Duckett was seated in his vehicle when he was shot. It came three months after bus driver Marcus Parks was shot while on duty.