The Syracuse Police Department arrested the suspect of a homicide near the Syracuse University campus on Tuesday afternoon, according to an SPD report.

Police officers were responding to a call to check on the status of a person at 501 S. Crouse Ave. when they found the homicide victim and identified her as Sarah Brantley, a 60-year-old woman of Syracuse, according to the report.

A suspect description was broadcast and shortly thereafter, the suspect — later identified as 22-year-old Jamar Brown of Syracuse — was stopped on West Genesee Street near Walnut Avenue, according to the report.

Brown was later charged with murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, according to the report. He will be held in the Onondaga County Justice Center.

The investigation is ongoing and additional information will be released when available, according to the report.