LORAIN, Ohio-- Police and U.S. Marshals on Tuesday arrested a man at gunpoint in connection with the hit-skip that killed a Cleveland police officer.

Police said they arrested Israel Alvarez, 44, on suspicion of aggravated vehicular homicide and felony hit-skip. Formal charges will be filed after the case is reviewed by Cuyahoga County Prosecutors.

A SWAT team about 11:45 a.m. ordered Alvarez out of his ex-girlfriend's home on West 31st Street, where police said they said they found a car linked to the early Tuesday crash that killed Cleveland Police officer David Fahey, 39.

Fahey is the first Cleveland police officer to be killed in the line of duty since Derek Owens was shot and killed by a man he was chasing in February 2008.

Alvarez put his hands over his head as officers pointed assault rifles at him. He walked down the stairs backwards and was arrested in the front yard.

He was put into the back of a Lorain police cruiser, driven up the road, and back to the scene. More Cleveland police officers arrived at the scene about 12:15 p.m.

Police took Alvarez from the Lorain cruiser and a Cleveland police officer re-handcuffed him using Fahey's cuffs that officers brought from Cleveland.

"That might not seem like a big thing to civilian folks, but that's a huge thing to law enforcement to be able to do that," Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Steve Loomis said at the scene.

The officers put Alvarez in a Cleveland cruiser and drove off.

Loomis said a U.S. Homeland Security agent spotted the car shortly after police put out a description of the suspect's car. Fahey's partner, officer Jennifer Scarborrough, saw the crash and gave Fahey first aid at the scene, Loomis said.

She saw a partial license plate of the car and sent it to dispatch. Fahey died at MetroHealth about 40 minutes later.

The homeland security agent spotted the car about 9:30 a.m., as Cleveland officials were announcing Fahey's death outside the hospital.

Lorain police, state Highway Patrol, Cleveland police and U.S. Marshals surrounded the home. After about two hours, Alvarez came out of the home and was arrested.

"We're confident it's the right guy," Loomis said. "The car's back there."