Officers nab Plymouth man wanted in shooting death

Last update: November 25, 2009 - 12:30 AM

A Plymouth man wanted in a fatal shooting in August was arrested Tuesday morning in northeast Minneapolis.

William Leon Lane, 23, was on Hennepin County's most-wanted list, with a $1,500 reward offered for his arrest. He was taken into custody about 7 a.m. at an apartment on the 1600 block of NE. Taylor Street by members of the Minnesota Fugitive Task Force and the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office.

Lane is charged in Hennepin County District Court with second-degree murder in the Aug. 31 killing of Christopher Dangelo Dozier. The body of the 23-year-old Minneapolis man was found in a vehicle in an alley behind the 1400 block of 11th Avenue N. He was found near two unoccupied cars that had also been hit by gunfire, and police had said they believed the two shooting scenes to be related.

Lane also is charged in U.S. District Court with a count of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. Authorities believe he went to Chicago, where he has family, but the task force received information that he had returned to Minneapolis.

Lane was being held in the Hennepin County jail, in lieu of $1.5 million bail.

VINCE TUSS

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