An ex-con charged in the shooting death of a Salem County resident has been apprehended in Georgia, authorities confirmed.

Ordale R. Telfair, 37, is accused of shooting Tayshon Hayward, 26, of Penns Grove, on May 23 at the Penns Grove Gardens apartment complex.

Members of a U.S. Marshals fugitive task force arrested Telfair on Wednesday morning in Powder Springs, Georgia, Salem County Prosecutor John T. Lenahan confirmed. He’s being held there pending extradition to New Jersey.

Authorities have not revealed what Telfair was doing in Georgia.

The shooting occurred after Hayward tried to intervene in an argument between two others, according to a woman who knew the victim.

Telfair was charged with murder and weapons offenses a day after the killing and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

The suspect had been paroled from South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton eight days before the shooting, according to state Department of Corrections records. He was serving a five-year term on a weapons possession charge.

Prior to that case, he was sentenced to five years on a drug possession charge in 2010 and the next year was sentenced to another five years on a weapons offense, according to court records.

The weapons case included an indictment for attempted murder, but that charge was dismissed. Telfair had been accused of shooting a Millville man in the chest in December 2009.

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