 MONTPELIER — A judge has granted police an arrest warrant for the killing of a Montpelier man early Sunday morning, but the suspect remains at large and may have fled the state, according to police. Austin is a former member of the Vermont Frost Heaves, a now-dissolved team in the American Basketball Association, a semi-pro league. Vermont State Police Maj. Glenn Hall said police have an arrest warrant for Jayveon Caballero, 29, of Barre, for second degree murder. "He may have gotten on a bus yesterday morning in White River Junction, a Greyhound bus, heading south," said Maj. Glenn Hall, Vermont State Police. Police were seeking Caballero in the killing of Markus Austin, whose body was found in the apartment complex's parking lot. Hall said Monday that they have since learned that Caballero and Austin knew each other and were involved in an altercation outside the Gustos bar on Prospect Street in Barre prior to the shooting. The victim, 33-year-old Markus Austin, was shot outside his apartment at 191 Barre Street in Montpelier around 4:30 a.m. Sunday morning. Cary lives with Caballero at 1099 South Barre Road in Barre, where a Vermont State Police Tactical Services unit and detectives executed a search warrant early Monday in an attempt to take Caballero into custody. Caballero's girlfriend, Desiree Cary, was arrested Sunday evening in Barre, where Caballero lives. Cary, 22, who was the target of an ongoing drug distribution investigation by the Vermont Drug Task Force, was taken into custody following a motor vehicle stop in Barre Sunday evening, Hall said. Police said the bus was headed to New York City but had several intermediate stops where he could have gotten off.
– Police in the country's smallest state capital are investigating something that hasn't happened there in living memory: a murder. Police in Vermont say they have issued an arrest warrant for 29-year-old Jayveon Caballero, who is accused of fatally shooting Markus Austin in Montpelier early Sunday after an altercation, the Times Argus reports. Witnesses told investigators that Austin, 33, assaulted Caballero’s girlfriend, Desiree Cary, during the altercation outside a bar in the nearby city of Barre early Sunday. Police say Caballero later confronted Austin outside his apartment and shot him dead. The body was found in the parking lot of Austin's apartment complex. A Vermont State Police spokesman says Caballero, who knew Austin before the shooting, fled the town and probably the state after the shooting, WCAX reports. The police spokesman says Caballero is believed to have boarded a Greyhound bus bound for New York City on Sunday morning, which made numerous stops in other states along the way. Later Sunday, Cary, 22, was arrested on apparently unrelated charges of selling heroin and crack cocaine. With around 7,500 residents, Montpelier has the smallest population of any state capital, the AP notes. Police Chief Anthony Facos says this is the city's first murder since a woman shot her husband in the 1920s.