Detroit — A 39-year-old Detroit resident who barricaded himself in a house until police arrested him after a standoff last week has been charged in the death of a man whose body was found in a vacant lot.

Wayne County prosecutors said a fight between Michael Lowell-J Knox and Christian Epps, 27, on Oct. 30 escalated into gunfire in a house in the 19300 block of Fleming Street on the city's east side.

Knox then "produced and fired a shotgun, fatally wounding Mr. Epps," the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said in a Friday press release. "It is further alleged that the defendant disposed of Mr. Epps’ lifeless body at another location."

Epps' mother reported him missing Oct. 30. Four days later, police found Epps' body in a vacant lot on the same block where the fight and shooting happene

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