New London – One of two people suspected of participating in an early morning shooting death is in police custody and faces a murder charge, among others, police said.

Evan J. Holmes, 20, of 46 Williams St., was arrested at about 10:45 a.m. at the Days Inn in Old Saybrook by police officers from the Old Saybrook, New London, state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and state police departments.

Holmes was charged with murder, home invasion and first-degree burglary.

Police are looking for a second suspect, Davion Smith, 18, of 93 State Pier Road, Apt. E7. He is wanted for the same charges and should be considered armed and dangerous, according to New London Deputy Police Chief Marshall Segar.

Smith is believed to be in the greater New Haven area and is described as 5-foot-4-inches tall and weighing about 130 pounds with a dark complexion.

The name of the victim, who was found on the third floor of a Montauk Avenue home with fatal gunshot wounds, has not been released.

Police responded to 252 Montauk Ave. at 4:17 a.m. Saturday, New London Deputy Police Chief Marshall Segar said, and discovered the victim.

Several New London and state police officers were still outside of 252 Montauk Ave., a green, three-story home, around 11:30 a.m. A pumpkin sits on the stoop of the home, and wind-chimes were blowing in the front yard on a sunny, breezy morning.

Montauk Avenue is cordoned off from Alger Place to Avery Court.

The home is just south of the Montauk Avenue Baptist Church.

A neighbor said she woke up Saturday morning around 4:30 a.m. to flashing police lights, but thought nothing of it. When she got up at 6:30 a.m. to wake her fiancé for work, she saw the lights and the state police Major Crime Unit truck and realized something serious had happened.

The neighbor said police told her they were looking for two suspects that may be in a white Crown Victoria.

The neighbor, who has three young children, said she thought people were dealing drugs at 252 Montauk Ave. She is planning to move and said "this just pushes it even more."

"You've got people going in and out of that house all the time," she said from her front steps. "People parking all over the street and running in or people running out. I don't want gunshots flying through my house."

Holmes, the suspect arrested Saturday, was in January found guilty of second-degree assault for an incident that occurred in April 2010. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison; it is unclear how much of the sentence he served.

In that case, Holmes was charged with shooting 17-year-old Idris Elahi in the foot outside the Elks Club on Green Street. The two teens had known each other for years and started playing football together as 10-year-olds, according to past articles in The Day.

Elahi is accused of fatally stabbing Matthew Chew in New London on Oct. 29, 2010.

Smith, who turned 18 last December, has no known criminal record in Connecticut.

The owner of 252 Montauk Ave., Thomas J. Faber of Waterford, could not be reached for comment.