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By Jennifer Mooney Piedra, Ani Martinez and Ely Portillo
The Miami Herald
MIAMI — The man who police suspect killed a federal customs agent during a bizarre traffic dispute Tuesday was apprehended a day later in a Davie dialysis center after a massive manhunt, authorities said.
Police arrested James Wonder, 65, of Miramar, and charged him in connection with the shooting death of Donald J. Pettit, 52, of Pembroke Pines.
Pettit was gunned down -- shot once in the head -- in the parking lot of a post office at Pines Boulevard and Dykes Road as his 12-year-old daughter watched.
''She cries at night,’' Pettit’s widow, Ileana, said Wednesday, sobbing. ``She holds me and says she wants her daddy back.’'
Federal sources close to the investigation say the shooting was sparked by a road rage incident that started as Wonder and Pettit were driving on Pines Boulevard.
For some unknown reason, the two cars pulled into the post office parking lot and ended with Pettit laying in a pool of blood beside his car.
Wonder lives in Miramar with his wife of 30 years, Aurora.
Late Wednesday, she declined to speak with a reporter when reached by phone.
Her husband, who carries a concealed weapons permit, has no prior criminal history, according to public records.
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