HOLYOKE — Police on Friday arrested a city man who has been charged with killing Robert James, a 52-year-old Agawam resident, in October.

Police arrested Felix Torres-Rodriguez, 28, after a detective assigned to a road construction detail reportedly saw him near Spring Street. Torres-Rodriguez was wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of James, whom police found with a gunshot wound on Oct. 30 after he was involved in a car crash on Main and Spring streets.

“The detective contacted other officers who responded to the area and arrested Torres-Rodriguez a short time later,” Hampden District Attorney’s Office spokesman James Leydon said in a statement.

On Oct. 30, Holyoke police and firefighters had responded to a two-car crash, where they found James unresponsive and trapped inside his car. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The next day, law enforcement obtained an arrest warrant for Torres-Rodriguez on a charge of murder.

“Investigators developed information that Torres-Rodriguez fled the state,” Leydon stated.

They were still working to track him when he was spotted in Holyoke last week. He was to be arraigned Monday in Holyoke District Court.

It was unclear how Torres-Rodriguez pleaded on Monday. At around 2 p.m., the clerk’s office said he had not yet been arraigned.

The case is still being investigated by the Massachusetts State Police detective unit assigned to the Hampden District Attorney’s Office, Holyoke police and the Hampden District Attorney’s Office murder unit.

Dusty Christensen can be reached at dchristensen@gazettenet.com.]]>