Former NBA player Javaris Crittenton --  the subject of a murder warrant -- was arrested Monday night, as he tried to board an Atlanta-bound Delta Air Lines flight at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California.

Crittenton was taken into custody in connection with the fatal August 19 shooting of Jullian Jones, a 22-year-old mother-of-four who was gunned down on an Atlanta street while walking with two men. Authorities said one of the men -- who was implicated in an April robbery of Crittenton -- was likely the target of the attack.

FBI officials in Atlanta received a federal arrest warrant for Crittenton Monday, after learning he'd bought, on August 24, a one-way plane ticket to Los Angeles, where he has connections.