Today, Eric Hue Ross Jr. made his first court appearance in Rockland County, more than two months after he was arrested in Pennsylvania following a five-day manhunt.

He was indicted in the shooting death of Youbens Joseph in Joseph's West Nyack car shop, Youbs Auto Sales.

The 24-year-old Ross was finally brought to New York on Thursday, and arraigned in Rockland County Court today on felony charges of second-degree murder and first-degree criminal use of a firearm. He faces life in prison, if he's convicted of the top charge.

“This defendant thought he could get away with murder. But he was wrong," Rockland Acting District Attorney Kevin Gilleece said in a statement. "He will now be held accountable for the cold-blooded shooting of a local car dealer at his place of business.”

Ross is accused of shooting Joseph, a 37-year-old married father of three from Middletown, New York, on Nov. 24 during an argument over a car he bought from Joseph's shop, according to prosecutors.

Ross was caught in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, several days later and had been held in the Bucks County jail in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, as a fugitive while he fought extradition to New York, officials said previously.

Nine of Joseph's relatives attended a Clarkstown police press conference in November to announce the arrest of Ross. Kherbens Joseph is one of Joseph's children, and the then 14-year-old called his father a "kind, trusting person."

"My father is known to forgive anybody that harms him," he said. "He gives second chances."

Clarkstown police previously said that Ross is a resident of Wilmington, Delaware, but that he had ties to Rockland. He attended college in Rockland and lived there the last couple of years, they said.

In July, Ross bought a Hyundai Sonata from Joseph at his store at 357 Route 59 in West Nyack, police said. Ross had issues with the car he bought from Joseph and took it back to him on Nov. 24, but Joseph said there was nothing he could do, prosecutors said.

The argument escalated, and Ross fired gunshots at Joseph, who was struck in the torso, police said. Ross drove away, they said, and Joseph was taken to Westchester Medical Center, where he died the next day, according to prosecutors.

Multiple law enforcement agencies searched for the suspect's car, and a heads-up police officer in Richland, Pennsylvania, saw the Hyundai Sonata parked in a shopping center, police said. Ross was arrested about 12 hours later at a relative's house in the area, they said.

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