Teen arrested for killing member of West Philly-based crew the Young Bag Chasers earlier this year, police say

An 17-year-old has been arrested and is expected to be charged with killing a man affiliated with the Young Bag Chasers earlier this year, police said.

Malik Wilson was taken into custody after officers in Northwest Philadelphia pulled him over in a traffic stop near Williams Avenue and Upsal Street Wednesday night, said Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore.

Wilson had spent about two weeks on the run after investigators determined he was among three people involved with killing Dahviair Autry, 26, outside his mother’s North Philadelphia home in March, Vanore said.

Autry’s killers been searching for him for days, circling his family’s block, near 8th and West Berks Streets, at all hours of the day, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.

On the evening of March 14, two men driving a black Honda parked on the 1900 block of North Darien Street, and lay in wait for Autry to appear, said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

Seconds after Autry walked outside around 6:15 p.m., police said, two gunmen armed with a handgun and rifle jumped out of the Honda, chased him down the block, and shot him multiple times, killing him.

The shooters fled in the Honda, which was later found on fire near 17th and Wishart Streets, police said.

Melvin Seabron, 20, is also wanted in connection with the killing, police said. He has been on the run for nearly six weeks.

Investigators say they are still working to identify a third person connected with the crime.

Autry, also known as “Davinchi,” was affiliated with the West Philadelphia-based gang known as the Young Bag Chasers — a group that gained notoriety online for killing people and writing merciless songs about it.

But their music also contributed to yearslong feuds that left many YBC members dead — and also drew the attention of law enforcement. Following a sprawling indictment unveiled earlier this year, and a series of other investigations that sent Autry’s friends to prison for decades, he was one of few YBC members who remained on the street.

Detectives are still working to determine what, if any, connection Wilson and Seabron have to YBC’s enemies — or if they’d been paid to carry out the hit.