A suspect is now in custody, facing charges for allegedly shooting a man, dismembering him, and setting a residence ablaze earlier this year on Chicago’s West Side.

Deparris Slaughter, a 32-year-old from Munster, Indiana, has been formally charged with the murder that occurred on March 7 in Lawndale, as per an announcement by Chicago police on Saturday.

Back in March, authorities were already treating the fatal incident at a West Side house fire as both a homicide and an arson investigation.

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Responding to the distress call, police officers and the Chicago Fire Department reached the Lawndale home located on South Kirkland Avenue, nestled between Cermak Road and Ogden Avenue, shortly before 9 p.m. on March 7.

Officers and the Chicago Fire Department arrived at the Lawndale home on South Kirkland Avenue between Cermak Road and Ogden Avenue just before 9 p.m. on March 7.

Firefighters extinguished the flames and found a 68-year-old man inside the home, police said. He was pronounced dead on the scene.

The man’s cause of death was from gunshot wounds to the neck and chest, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said. Sources familiar with the investigation said in March that both of the victim’s arms and one of his legs had been severed.

Neighbors told ABC7 in March the victim rented the home and lived there with his two adult sons. They said the family was relatively new to the neighborhood and had only been on the block for the last two years or so.

Nine months after the crimes, Slaughter was identified as a suspect and was arrested Saturday in Burnham, Illinois, Chicago police said.

Slaughter is facing four felony charges: Murder – First Degree, Residential Arson, Dismembering a Human Body and Conceal Homicidal Death.

The suspect is set to appear in court on Monday.

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