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Canada (thespec.com) – Early Friday, Joshua Warner, 22, was handed over to Hamilton Canadian police detectives in Georgetown, Guyana. He was flown back to Canada under escort later that afternoon and was scheduled to appear in court shortly after.The international manhunt for a suspect in the shooting death of a Hamilton teenager ended quietly at the foot of an aircraft’s boarding stairs on a runway in Guyana.Detective Sergeant Ian Matthews and Joshua David Warner, 22, came face to face on the tarmac early Friday and recognized each other immediately.“How are you?” Matthews asked Warner, who was wanted for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Brandon Musgrave on March 13, 2010.Musgrave, 18, was mortally wounded when gunfire erupted in what police say was “a party gone bad,” in a Dundurn Street South student residence. Two men opened fire after a dispute about the music being played.Three young men were hit by bullets. Musgrave died the next day.When Matthews and Warner met Friday at Cheddi Jagan International Airport outside the Guyana capital of Georgetown, Warner said nothing.“He actually looked relieved,” said Detective Paul Johnston, who went with Matthews. “He wasn’t living the high life.”The 13-month hunt for Warner took many turns after the suspect walked out of a Hamilton courtroom on unrelated charges of breach of probation and drug possession two days after the shooting.At that time, detectives were on an upper floor of the courthouse seeking warrants for Warner and Tyrone Chambers. When the suspects’ names were publicly released at 2:30 p.m. that day, court staff realised one of the wanted men had actually showed up for a court date and had disappeared.Police would later learn that Warner caught a flight from Toronto International Airport to Caracas, Venezuela, about 7:30 p.m. that same night. Matthews said police do not know how Warner got from Hamilton to Toronto that day.Johnston said Warner had a valid Canadian passport when he left Toronto, but did not have it when he was arrested in Guyana, and the Canadian High Commission had to arrange emergency travel documents to get him back here.Matthews and Johnston took Warner into their custody at the foot of the plane ramp and returned him to Hamilton Friday.There was no trouble on the flight home, said Johnston, and Warner was co-operative.Then Matthews called Brandon Musgrave’s family.The whirlwind, 36-hour round trip began Wednesday after police learned Warner had been arrested by a uniformed officer with the Guyana Police Force on April 8.Hamilton detectives had tracked Chambers, 23, to Halifax and he was arrested without incident there last April. His preliminary hearing will take place in a Hamilton court September 20.Chambers’ girlfriend — Yaasmiyn Davidson, 20, of Hamilton — has been charged with being an accessory after the fact to murder for her alleged role in helping him escape.Early in the hunt for Warner, Hamilton police, RCMP, Interpol, U.S. Marshals and other police agencies concentrated the hunt on South America and the Caribbean.Detective Paul Hamilton said police tracked Warner though various Caribbean islands including Jamaica, as well as Suriname, Venezuela and Guyana.Hamilton said Warner was using “illegal transportation” — namely small boat operators who do not ask questions — to travel from one country to another, because he did not have a passport or other documents.The victim’s sister, Cora Musgrave, who was among family members at Monday’s news conference, said word of Warner’s arrest and speedy extradition from Guyana brought relief and a sense of a “small victory.”However, her family “still has to face” seeing Warner in court, she said.“I want to say thank-you to the police, to the community and to everyone who has supported us and given us love,” she said.“And that’s not just for us, but for the other young people whose lives have been changed forever,” she said.“I just don’t know what else to say other than ‘Thank you, all.’”Musgrave said her family always felt the suspect in Brandon’s slaying would be caught.“You can’t keep running forever,” she said.It is a relief, knowing both suspects are in custody.“When the police called, I cried,” she said quietly.Both Warner and Chambers were being sought on charges of second-degree murder, attempted murder while using a firearm, two counts of reckless discharge of a firearm, two counts of possession of a restricted weapon while prohibited, and two counts of breach of probation.