A Brooklyn man who spent nearly 7 years evading authorities is set to face a judge today in connection to a 2017 murder in Flatbush.

Dean Boland, 35, was arrested last month in Albany and will appear in Brooklyn Supreme Court alongside his brother, Rasheed Boland, 32. Both are charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon for their alleged roles in the shooting death of 20-year-old Justin Hackley.

Prosecutors say Hackley had just stepped out of a Flatbush building with a friend on July 11, 2017, when the Boland brothers allegedly attacked them, pistol-whipping Hackley’s friend before shooting Hackley twice.

Hackley, a college student home for the summer, was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Rasheed Boland was arrested in Texas in 2019 while living under an assumed name. However, Dean Boland remained a fugitive until last month, when he was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Albany.

He is now being held without bail and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison if convicted.