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Alonso Perez, 25. Police say Perez, who also uses the name Alfonso Perez, is a homicide suspect who escaped from custody at a police detective bureau while awaiting questioning about the Aug. 27, 2016, shooting death of a 31-year-old man at a McDonald’s restaurant.

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev.>> North Las Vegas police say a homicide suspect who has been on the loose since he escaped last week has been recaptured.

Law officers apprehended 25-year-old Alonso Perez about 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Police say in a statement that he was located in a residence and taken into custody without incident.

No other details of the arrest were immediately available, including where it occurred.

Perez had been on the loose since he broke free from handcuffs Friday and escaped from a Las Vegas-area police station.

He has been identified by police as a suspect in an Aug. 27 shooting that left Mohammed Robinson, 31, dead outside a McDonald’s restaurant.

Perez was alone in an interview room when he broke the hinge of his handcuffs and escaped with one cuff still attached to his right wrist, Officer Aaron Patty said.

“He twisted them until they broke,” Patty said of the wrist restraints. “This is an extremely unfortunate circumstance. We’re going to take a look at the details of how he escaped. But right now, we have a murder suspect on the loose and our focus is locating him.”

Perez was identified by police as a suspect in an Aug. 27 shooting that left Mohammed Robinson, 31, dead outside a McDonald’s restaurant.

Witnesses said the fatal argument began with angry words about Robinson not holding a door open for a woman.

Perez, 25, who also uses the name Alfonso Perez, allegedly fled from the police office and stole a Ford F-250 work truck from a nearby parking lot. The vehicle was later found in a neighborhood east of downtown Las Vegas.

Perez was described as 6-foot-3, with a goatee and a distinctive “Air Jordan” tattoo on his neck.

The escape was believed to be the second this year from a police station in the Las Vegas area.

The April escape of Ivan Mayoral-Lizarraga from a northeast Las Vegas police substation prompted a nearly five-hour lockdown of a surrounding neighborhood before the search was called off. Police said Mayoral-Lizarraga was being questioned in a stolen vehicle investigation when he fled.

He was arrested about two weeks later, and pleaded guilty to felony home invasion, assault with a weapon and escape charges, according to court records. Mayoral-Lizarraga, now 40, was sentenced last month to 2-to-5 years in state prison.

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