Ricardo Santos Bass
Capital murder suspect sought in Decatur, Huntsville slayings now in custody
By Carol Robinson
AL.com
A double murder suspect sought in north Alabama killings was captured Tuesday night.
Ricardo S. Bass, 40, was taken into custody shortly after 7 p.m. on County Line Road off Interstate 565 in Madison County, said Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal Cliff LaBarge. Bass has been sought on capital murder warrants for slayings in Decatur and Huntsville.
LaBarge said the Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force developed information that Bass was in Birmingham on Tuesday. They learned he had been at a residence in the city’s Brown Springs neighborhood and was back on the road, traveling northbound on Interstate 65.
Multiple law enforcement agencies were notified, and Decatur investigators stopped Bass on County Line Road. LaBarge said the suspect fled on foot but was quickly captured.
The U.S. Marshals were offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
Bass was wanted in an Aug. 19 shooting death that happened about 6:20 a.m. at the Wavaho on Wilston Street. Decatur police said Mark Allen Nicholson was killed during a robbery.
Huntsville police have also connected Bass to a fatal shooting on McVay Street in Huntsville earlier that same morning. Huntsville police said officers were dispatched to the 3600 block of McVay Street around 5:50 a.m. that Thursday. Jeffrey Carden, 31, of Huntsville, was discovered dead at the scene from a fatal gunshot wound, police said.
The two killings happened roughly 30 minutes apart.
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