Overview
- U.S. Marshals arrested Isaiah Andrews in St. Louis without incident, and officials expect to return him to King County to face a first-degree murder charge.
- Police say Andrews, 20, is accused of killing 20-year-old Theodore Wheeler in Seattle’s Northgate neighborhood on October 15, 2025.
- Andrews was first arrested in Antioch after a vehicle chase on October 18 and booked into the Contra Costa County jail before staff mistakenly released him days later.
- The release prompted a multistate search led by federal marshals and Seattle police that lasted more than five months before his capture.
- The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office opened an internal investigation and has shared few details, while the victim’s mother said she was not notified after the error, highlighting gaps in custody and family communication.