The suspect, Greg A. Carlson, 47, was wanted in connection with an armed burglary and attempted sexual assault in Los Angeles in July 2017. The agency said in an announcement publicizing his placement on the most wanted list last year that “he should be considered armed and extremely dangerous.”

John A. Strong, the special agent in charge of the FBI field office in Charlotte, North Carolina, said Carlson was found after a local police officer spotted a suspicious vehicle early Wednesday in the parking lot of the WoodSpring Suites in Apex, North Carolina, a few miles west of Raleigh.

The officer ran the car’s license plates and determined it to be the car associated with Carlson and listed on his FBI wanted poster. The officer alerted the FBI, which sent an agent to the hotel and determined that Carlson was in a room there.

“Our officers approached the room to effect an arrest of Mr. Carlson and upon making contact with Mr. Carlson and attempting to effect the arrest, Mr. Carlson — who was armed at the time — was in fact shot by an FBI agent and is now deceased,” Strong said at a news conference outside the hotel. He said only one shot had been fired.

“The shooting happened where the subject was staying, in his room, but I don’t want to go any further than that, about how he was approached,” Strong added. But he told reporters that law enforcement officers had not intended to kill Carlson.

“We want to capture the individual, give them their day in court and bring them to justice,” he said. “What happened today was unfortunate. It is definitely not what we want to happen. We feel fortunate that no one else was injured, but by no means did we want this to happen to this individual.”

Carlson was accused of trying to rob a home in Los Angeles on July 13, 2017, and while he was there trying to sexually assault a woman while he was carrying a weapon, the FBI said when it announced his placement on the most wanted list last year. It did not say what type of weapon he had used.

He was arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department in September 2017 and charged with burglary, assault with intent to commit rape and assault with a deadly weapon. He posted bail and was released, then fled.

The bureau said Carlson then went to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, but eventually left that state with a stolen handgun, a rental car and “a significant amount of cash.” It said it did not know how he had obtained the money.

In November 2017, he led the police in Hanover, Alabama, on what the FBI called “an erratic, high-speed pursuit” that ended when officers decided the car chase was a danger to the public and stopped following him. Later that month, he was seen in Florida in Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, the bureau said.

On Wednesday, the FBI said that the suspect’s fingerprints matched those of Carlson but that the medical examiner’s office would formally identify the body.

A representative for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said such an announcement would happen after the completion of an autopsy, which could take several days.

The FBI said a team from its inspection division would review the shooting at the hotel and present its findings to a Shooting Incident Review Group consisting of representatives from the FBI and the Justice Department.

“While this internal review process is occurring,” the bureau said, “no further comments can be made.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.