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DC Police Arrest Jamel Callis For 2005 Murder Of James Harris

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WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Metropolitan police have charged a Maryland man with murder in a 2005 shooting death in northeast.

Twenty-six-year-old Jamel Callis, of Temple Hills, Md. was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder while armed.

Callis is accused of killing 31-year-old James Presley Harris of Washington.

Police responded to the 4500 block of Quarles Street NE around 12:40 a.m. on Sept. 2, 2005. Emergency personnel found no signs of life in Harris who sustained multiple gunshot wounds.

Callis was taken into custody shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday.

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