DETROIT -- Detroit police cold case investigators have arrested a 42-year-old man in connection with a homicide case from 1993.

Leslie Bryant Wilson was arraigned Thursday in 36th District Court in connection with the slaying of Lardell Clark, 18, of Detroit.

"We waited 16 and a half years for somebody to pay for what they did to our baby," said Clark's mother Valerie Clark.

Wilson was arrested earlier in the month at his Georgia home, where he had been living since the late 90s and extradited to Detroit on Nov. 16.

Police said the shooting was drug-related, but they have not identified the motive.

Clark's body was found on May 18, 1993, in a field behind a home on the 2500 block of Highland Street on Detroit's west side.

Investigators said Clark was shot multiple times and then likely brought to the location.

His body was wrapped in a gold-colored curtain and covered with car floor mats.

Homicide investigators at the time were unable to identify a suspect due to a lack of witnesses, but with the passing of time, people who had knowledge of the murder were willing to talk to cold case investigators.

"This demonstrates that we never truly consider a case unsolvable and that, occasionally, time can be our ally," Evans said. "With any homicide, the victim's family needs and deserves to see the killer brought to justice. We are glad that we have been able to do that for Mr. Clark's parents and his daughter."

The arrest has given his family some closure.

"We can go to the cemetery for the first time and we can tell my baby they got him," said Clark.

Clark said she didn't think she would see the day that someone was prosecuted for her son's murder.

"I actually thought I was going take this to my grave," said Clark.

Wilson is being held without bond. His next court date is Nov. 30.

This is the second cold case that officers have closed within the last month. In October, the Cold Case Squad arrested Calvin McWilliams, who investigators had identified as the shooter in a 1992 homicide.