3 Royal Farms Murder Suspects In Custody, Police Say

BALTIMORE, MD — The three suspects in Tuesday's deadly shooting near Royal Farms are in custody, according to Baltimore Police. Authorities said the trio had been arrested before 2 p.m. Wednesday out of state.

"All three suspects wanted in killing of Alex Wroblewski have now been identified and are in custody in Atlanta, Georgia," Baltimore Police Chief of Media Relations TJ Smith said in a statement.

This is breaking news and will be updated.

Previous report: Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a woman in the murder a beloved 41-year-old south Baltimore bartender who was shot outside Royal Farms on Tuesday morning.

Alex Wroblewski, 41, a Locust Point man who tended bar at The Rowhouse Grille on Light Street, was shot in the stomach outside the store around 1:15 a.m. on Tuesday, police said. He died at the hospital, officials reported.

Tonya Arnita Hayes, 37, whose last known address was in Atlanta, has been identified as one of three suspects in the shooting, police said on Wednesday.

Hayes has connections in Virginia and Baltimore, according to police. She has previously lived in Baltimore.

"We are currently working with authorities in Atlanta and Virginia..." Baltimore Police Chief of Media Relations TJ Smith said. "Right now, we don't know exactly where she is."

Hayes was in a silver four-door vehicle that pulled up to the gas pumps outside the Royal Farms at the corner of Lawrence Street at Key Highway around 1:15 a.m. on Tuesday.

Hayes and a man also suspected in the case got out of the vehicle and when Wroblewski left the Royal Farms, police said the man returned to the vehicle and got something out of it.

Police said Hayes followed two men in the vehicle as they confronted Wroblewski.

She has "some out-of-state criminal history," Smith said, out of state, pointing to Georgia and Virginia.

Anyone with information may call detectives at 410-396-2100 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP. People can also text tips to 443-902-4824.

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This is breaking news and will be updated.

Flier via Baltimore Police.