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GREENSBORO - After hundreds of tips from the public and a big break created by an argument on N.C. A&T's campus, police arrested a suspect Monday in the highly publicized Dec. 15 homicide at Old Navy at Friendly Center.

Isaam Mattay Chaplin, 28, was arrested by the A&T police department about 3:30 p.m. Monday outside Campbell Hall, officials said.

Chaplin is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Juan Estaban Salado, a guard with Brink's Security, who was shot in the head in an early morning robbery outside Old Navy, police said.

"We are very excited about bringing some closure to (Salado's) family," said Capt. Janice Rogers of the Greensboro Police Department. "This was an ambush-type murder to a man who was doing his job and had a 6-year-old son he left behind and a fiancée. (This happened) for no good cause."

His sister, Joanna Salado, said Tuesday that hearing about the arrest in her brother's homicide was a bittersweet moment.

"I was happy this person was taken off the street, but it hit me again that my brother will not return home," she said.

The robbery and homicide happened about 10 a.m. Dec. 15 after a man wearing nurse's scrubs and a wig entered the store and began browsing, police said.

When the Brink's Security armored truck pulled up, Salado went inside and picked up the store's deposit. A man with a gun approached Salado in front of the store, police said. The gunman fired two shots, with at least one hitting Salado in the head.

Taking an undisclosed amount of money, the gunman fled on foot to a waiting car, police said.

Salado died at Moses Cone Hospital.

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