A New York attorney who authorities say shot his child’s mother to death at the couple’s New Jersey home has been apprehended in Cuba and returned to U.S. soil.

James R. Ray III, 55, was apprehended before he passed through customs at an airport in Cuba on Oct. 28, and was brought back to New Jersey by FBI agents on Nov. 6, acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II told reporters at a news conference Wednesday.