Ed. Note: The following is a news release published by the New York State Police Department. 

New York police have arrested the shooting suspect who allegedly killed a man and wounded his girlfriend in Canyon Country, officials said Tuesday.

New York State Police have arrested Michael Joe McGlothan, the suspect in the May 6 slaying of a Lancaster man in a Canyon Country apartment complex.

According to a statement from the police department’s Buffalo office, McGlothan, 51, was arrested without incident Monday at about 4 p.m. near a highway toll booth on the New York State Thruway in western New York.

McGlothan was arraigned in the Town of Dunkirk Court and taken to the Chautaugua County Jail pending an extradition hearing, the statement said.

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s homicide investigators identified McGlothan as the suspect in the shooting death of Ledarion Allen Jr., 21, and the wounding of Allen’s girlfriend, who was treated for a gunshot wound at a local hospital.

The incident occurred in the 25700 block of Sierra Highway.