Police have arrested a black man in two fatal highway shootings in Mississippi that prompted warnings a fake officer might be pulling over victims

Authorities said that the fears of an impostor turned out to be unfounded. Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said that the suspect, James D Willie, 28, had not been posing as a police officer in the shootings. Willie is being held on charges of kidnapping, aggravated assault and rape and would be formally charged with two counts of capital murder. Willie is being held at the Tunica County jail in north Mississippi. He was arrested when authorities responded to a disturbance at an apartment. Tunica police found Willie with a woman who claimed that he had raped her. When Willie was arrested, authorities found a 9mm Ruger in his possession. Ballistic testing later found that it was the same gun used in the two highway shootings. Willie is a convicted felon.