Man wanted for homicide arrested

Maurice Jones, 27, of the 5300 block of North 12th Street, turned himself in to officers at Police Headquarters March 5.

The fugitive wanted for the Feb. 25 murder of Charles Tresse, 35,  in the 22nd Police District turned himself in to Police Headquarters yesterday, March 5, at 11:45 p.m.

Maurice Jones, 27, of the 5300 block of North 12th Street, is responsible for Tresse’s multiple gunshot wounds to the chest which resulted in his death.

When police responded to a call regarding “person with a gun” on the 1800 block of North 20th Street, near 20th and Montgomery streets, they found Tresse, badly injured. He was taken to Temple Hospital where he died shortly thereafter.