Authorities have apprehended a black man charged with first-degree murder who swapped identities with another prisoner and walked out of a Washington courthouse

Officials have apprehended 24-year-old James Brewer, a suspect in a fatal shooting in Washington in June 2011. D.C. Superior Court records say that before Brewer was called before a judge, he switched identification bracelets with a prisoner arrested on a drug charge. Brewer then apparently posed as the other person and was released because the charge, possession of PCP, is a misdemeanor.