A man wanted in the murder of a 26-year-old Jacksonville woman was found dead in Baltimore from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Wednesday afternoon, according to the Baltimore Police Department.

Authorities responded to the 1200 block of N. Woodington Road about 1:40 p.m. after a body was reported in a nearby stretch of woods, police said.

Officers found a man, whose body was obviously decomposed, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head, according to a police incident report. He was later identified as 26-year-old Norris Rashid Dail Sr. of the 500 block of East Church Street.

Lying yards away from Dail, investigators found several personal effects, including a camera with a bullet hole through it, according to the report. The report said investigators found eight 9mm shell casings near his feet and a loaded magazine and a photo ID inside his pants pocket.

Dail, whom paramedics pronounced dead at the scene, had a "recent history of troubling behavior" and a preexisting mental illness, according to the report.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office issued a murder warrant for Dail after his girlfriend, 26-year-old Cynthia Marie Aviles, was found dead Sept. 28 at the couple’s La Esperanza apartment on University Boulevard across from Memorial Hospital Jacksonville.

Police said Dail was last seen leaving the apartment about 10 p.m. the night before.

Authorities were originally looking for Dail and the couple’s 4-year-old son, but the boy was dropped off with a family member in Baltimore a couple days after his mother was found dead, police said.

Joe Daraskevich: (904) 359-4308