CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man is back in custody and charged in a downtown Chicago murder over 20 years later following an international search effort.

David Barklow, 68, was extradited Friday to Chicago from South America, police announced.

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Barklow was identified as the suspect who shot and killed 40-year-old Kent Projansky on December 18, 2004, inside his apartment in the 1100 block of N. Dearborn in the city's Near North neighborhood, Chicago police said.

Detectives found that Barklow lived across the street from Projansky at the time of the murder, and the suspect was arrested on October 16, 2019 by the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force following an investigation.

Barklow was able to flee the county in December

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