A man wanted in a deadly shooting in New York City was arrested Saturday night at a Bobcats game in Charlotte.

Members of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Violent Criminal Apprehension Team and state and federal agents arrested 24-year-old Earle Barranco during the NBA game, according to police.

Undercover officers captured Barranco in one of the VIP areas of Time Warner Cable arena around 7:45 p.m., according to WCNC-TV, the Observer's news partner. Police said he was arrested without incident. The game wasn't interrupted by the police activity.

Bobcats' spokesman Michael Thompson said he didn't know which VIP box Barranco was in.

Barranco, 24, was in the Mecklenburg jail Sunday with no bond, awaiting an extradition hearing.

New York police said Barranco shot 28-year-old Corey Scott twice in the head and three times in the back after a confrontation two weeks ago at the Good Stuff Diner on 14th Street in New York City. Scott was killed instantly.

The New York Daily News reported that the shooting may have been sparked by a debt. Barranco and Scott knew each other, the newspaper reported.

Surveillance video taken from inside the diner shows Scott and several friends walking into the restaurant and confronting another group sitting in the back, the Daily News reported.

Barranco was said to have friends in Charlotte and fled here after the shooting.

It's unclear how police learned that he would be at the game, which the Bobcats lost to the Orlando Magic, 91-88.

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