Murder suspect is apprehended hiding in Ohio

A man accused of killing an up-and-coming Seattle rap artist and promoter was arrested on Friday in Ohio after a nearly four-month manhunt.

Law-enforcement authorities said Tyrese Harrison, 22, was arrested by Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force after he was tracked to a duplex in Youngstown, Ohio, where he had apparently been hiding with relatives.

Harrison was charged with second-degree murder late last year in connection with the Nov. 27 fatal shooting of 22-year-old Max Gasoi, who was found in the street outside of his car near St. James Cathedral on Ninth Avenue in Seattle.

Prosecutors say in charging documents that Gasoi and a friend had been playing video games when they drove to the area near the church to meet Harrison, a friend of Gasoi's from Bremerton.

When they met with Harrison, prosecutors said, Harrison got into the back seat of Gasoi's car and Gasoi handed him a brown paper grocery bag.

Gasoi's friend later told police he believed the bag contained marijuana.

Police and prosecutors say Harrison shot Gasoi while the two of them were talking in the car.

Gasoi made it out of the car and was able to fire off a few rounds, court documents say.

Police were able to tell from Gasoi's phone that Harrison was the last person Gasoi had spoken to before his death.

Relatives of Gasoi said the native New Yorker had moved to Seattle and recently incorporated a record label called So Hood Records. They said he had been having success promoting material he performed under the name "AKshun Tha Don."

On a social-networking page, Gasoi wrote, "They call me AKshun 'cause my life is like an action movie."

Miko Braxton, the mother of Gasoi's infant daughter, said after the shooting that Gasoi was a "great father and a loving boyfriend."

Christine Clarridge: 206-464-8983 or cclarridge@seattletimes.com

Information from Seattle Times archives is included in this report.