(WWJ) A man from St. Louis, Missouri, has been charged with murder in a fatal stabbing outside a tire store in Troy.
The body of 38-year-old Carlos Contreras of Flint was found facedown in the snow by employees early Monday morning, outside Belle Tire on Rochester Road.
Police said Contreras was in a car with suspect, 41-year-old Jerome Perry-Bey, when the pair got into an argument while driving through Troy on their way to Pontiac.
They pulled into the store parking lot, where the dispute turned into a physical fight, police said, and Perry-Bey pulled a knife.
Contreras was killed by a single stab wound to his chest area, police said, and an open and bloody folding knife in the snow near his body. The Oakland County Medical Examiner's Office performed an autopsy later that morning and ruled the death a homicide.
Investigators traveled to Flint to contact the victim's family, and with the help of Flint police quickly identified Perry-Bey as a suspect in the slaying.
"The Troy police Department want to extend our sincere thanks to the City of Flint Police Department for their assistance in this case," Troy Police said, in a statement. "We would also like to recognize our officers who worked quickly, in adverse weather conditions, and with limited initial information to make an arrest within hours of the initial call for service.
Police said Perry-Bey was wanted on weapons charges back home St. Louis, and may have fled to Michigan to avoid arrest.
Bond was denied.
Police did not say how the suspect and the victim were acquainted.
