Suspect in Las Vegas Strip Deaths Caught in Studio City is Extradited

A man who was caught after a manhunt that led to Studio City has been extradited from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on Monday night, according to officials.

The man was charged with murder and other counts in a shooting and fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip nearly two months and he was apprehended in an apartment complex on Arch Drive.

Ammar Harris, 27, was released just after 11:30 p.m. Monday to Nevada law enforcement officials, according to jail records. Harris has been returned to Clark County, Nev., where he is awaiting a court appearance on Wednesday, according to Tess Driver of the Clark County District Attorney's Office.

Harris was jailed in Los Angeles since arrest in Studio City on Feb. 28.

After examining photographs and fingerprints, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Shelly Torrealba said she determined last month that Harris is "the same individual" being sought by the state of Nevada. Authorities allege that Harris opened fire Feb. 21 from a Range Rover on Oakland-based rap artist Kenny Clutch, legally known as Kenneth Wayne Cherry, after a verbal altercation.

The fatally wounded Clutch crashed the Maserati he was driving into a cab that burst into flames, killing taxi driver Michael Boldon and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund.

A criminal complaint filed Feb. 22 in Nevada charged Harris with 11 counts, including three counts of murder with use of a deadly weapon, one count of attempted murder, two counts of discharging a firearm at or into a vehicle and five counts of discharging a firearm out of a motor vehicle.

(See photos of the Arch Drive arrest in the gallery above.)