A suspect sought for more than a year in the shooting death of a Carver High School basketball player is now in custody.

Birmingham police said Derrick Michael Stone Jr., 21, was arrested Wednesday by the department’s Special Enforcement Division’s Crime Reduction Team. He was taken into custody at a west Birmingham home.

Stone is charged with capital murder in the May 16, 2022, killing of 17-year-old Dwaine Thomas. He is the second person charged in Thomas’s death. Jemarien Zachius Goree, 18, was arrested last year in connection with the case.

Charging documents state Goree provided Stone with the gun to shoot Thomas.

Thomas, a baseball player for the Carver Rams, died in the parking lot of a Tuscaloosa Avenue S.W. apartment complex. He was just weeks from graduation.

Officers were responding to an unrelated call shortly before 5:30 p.m. that Monday when the officer saw a physical altercation taking place in the parking lot of the complex.

Thomas, police said, “was getting the best of the suspect,’’ during the altercation.

As the officer pulled up, police said, the suspect retrieved a firearm from a vehicle and shot Thomas.

Thomas was found on the ground between two cars and suffering from a gunshot wound and pronounced dead.

The officer also saw a suspect, who tried to flee the scene. He engaged in a brief pursuit with the suspect, who got away after fleeing in a small blue sedan.

Stone has evaded capture for more than a year.

He is being held without bond in the Jefferson County Jail.