LISBON — A 24-year-old Wellsville man is being held on fugitive from justice charges in Hancock County, W.Va., after he was picked up Thursday afternoon on a warrant connecting him to an East Liverpool shooting death from last May.

Tyrell Marques Travers, formerly of Clover Avenue, Wellsville, was taken into custody in Chester, W.Va., at 2:30 p.m. Thursday according to Columbiana County Sheriff Brian McLauglin. McLaughlin thanked the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office, the Hancock, Brooke, Weirton, Drug and Violent Crime Task Force and the U.S. Marshal’s office for assisting in locating Travers, who reportedly was indicted by the Columbiana County Common Pleas Court grand jury last week on charges including aggravated murder with a firearms specification.

Travers is accused in the shooting death of Dion McMillon, formerly of New Jersey, who East Liverpool Police Chief John Lane said was found dead of a gunshot wound in a parked car in the area of Mapletree Street. As part of the investigation, McLaughlin said a search warrant was executed at Travers’ Wellville home in June.

Lane credited Detective Capt. Darin Morgan for his work on the investigation into the murder of McMillon, which reportedly took a lot of time to gather the evidence that all began to point toward Travers in the end. Morgan was reportedly on hand in Chester, W.Va. on Thursday to assist when Travers was taken into custody.

“We were pleased to learn that Mr. Travers was apprehended in Hancock County,” said Columbiana County Prosecutor Vito Abruzzino. “We will work expeditiously to get him back into the custody of Columbiana County authorities. More details will follow once we are able to release them, but thank you to the Sheriff’s Office and Hancock County for their quick work in the apprehension.”

The Columbiana County indictment has not been released pending service on Travers, who is being held in the Northern Regional Jail in Moundsville, W.Va., awaiting extridition hearings in Hancock County. The fugitive from justice warrant in Hancock County state Travers is wanted in Columbiana County where he faces charges of two counts of murder, aggravated murder and tampering with evidence, all with a firearms specification.

Lane said he hopes the arrest in this case also may lead to more evidence in another shooting in July of 2021 on the porch of a house in the 1200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue.