By JUAN McCARTNEY, Guardian Senior Reporter, juan@nasguard.com

A teenager wanted by police for questioning in connection with the high profile murder of Senor Frogs waiter Marvin Wilson last month, was in police custody yesterday.

"The suspect turned himself into police at the George Town police station just after eight (Monday) night," police spokesman Assistant Superintendent Walter Evans said yesterday.

"Officers from the Central Detective Unit are making preparations to travel to Exuma (Tuesday) morning to collect this individual and to return him to New Providence."

Wilson, 32, was a Jamaican national, who police said was repeatedly stabbed at his residence on Collins Avenue on the morning of June 3, and died later in hospital.

He was the 31st murder victim in the country for 2008. And the fourth reported homosexual murdered in eight months on New Providence.

Police released an artist's rendering of the person believed to be responsible for Wilson's death several weeks ago.

Evans said the male in custody in connection with Wilson's murder is that same 17-year-old that was depicted in the poster. He was expected to arrive in the capital sometime yesterday.

Wilson's reported homosexuality and the violent nature of his death added to the concern surrounding several high profile murders that had taken place on New Providence since last November.

Well-known anti-AIDS activist Wellington Adderley was found dead in his Delancey Street apartment earlier this year.

There was reportedly no sign of forced entry, and according to reports, his throat was severely slit.

International handbag designer Harl Taylor and College of The Bahamas dean and lecturer, Dr. Thaddeus McDonald were both brutally slain late last year.

Police have yet to file any charges in connection with those killings.

The men's homes were located in the same vicinity and there was also no sign of forced entry.

All three men, like Wilson, were reportedly homosexual.

Wilson had permanent residency status in The Bahamas, according to police sources, who added that Wilson was found in his boxer shorts and socks.

It was suggested at the time that police believed Wilson's assailant had not planned the attack, given that the murder weapon reportedly came from Wilson's own knife collection.

Wilson had been a waiter at the popular downtown restaurant Senor Frog's for the past four years.

Inspector Christopher Wright of the Homicide Division of the Royal Bahamas Police Force said that before he died from stab wounds, shortly after 12:30 a.m. on June 4, Wilson knocked on the door of a neighbor at the Gregory House apartment complex on Rusty Bethel Drive, off Collins Avenue, in a plea for help.

Wright said police believe that before he knocked on the door of his neighbor's apartment there was a scuffle with another person inside Wilson's home. Wright said Wilson was stabbed in the chest during the fight.

"What we can say to you is we have forensic evidence at that scene to suggest this particular male was in a struggle with somebody," he said.

Wright said there was no evidence of a home invasion or forced entry into Wilson's apartment.

When The Nassau Guardian visited the scene the day of Wilson's murder, police forensic officials were outside the offices of J.S. Johnson Insurance and General Insurance Brokers demarcating blood spatter evidence.

Wright said that blood belonged to Wilson's murderer.