BLACKWELL, Justice.
Marico Young was tried by a DeKalb County jury and convicted of the murder of Gregory Porter, among other crimes. Young appeals, contending that the evidence is insufficient to sustain his convictions and that the trial court erred when it admitted evidence of a certain firearm found in his vicinity at the time of his arrest. We see no error, and we affirm.
1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence shows that Young and Terrell Andrews exchanged words at a store near the Wynhollow Apartments on the evening of October 9, 2009. In the course of this exchange, Young told Andrews, "I'm going to catch you in the apartments." Approximately 30 to 45 minutes later, Young returned to Wynhollow Apartments, where he was staying with his mother and her boyfriend, Kyle Kee. At that time, Andrews was with a group of young men who were sitting or standing at a retaining wall on the apartment complex property, with their backs to the complex pool. Young's girlfriend dropped him off outside the complex leasing office, and he came down a path behind the leasing office, adjacent to the pool. Witnesses reported that he jogged down the hill behind or near the pool, holding his hand at his waist as if he were holding something in place. When he reached the staircase leading down from the pool, located to the left of the retaining wall, he stepped around or through a bush beside the staircase and fired a weapon numerous times at the group.
Tirrell North was immediately struck in the head by one of the first shots, and Andrews then returned fire. As a result of the gun fight, Porter was shot twice in the back and killed, North was shot once in the head and finger, Joshua Smith was shot once in the thigh, Andrews was shot once in the left buttock, and Paul Cargile was shot in the arm, ankle, thigh, and bladder. Young fled the scene unharmed and was apprehended at the home of his girlfriend three days later. At the time he was arrested, police recovered a .40 caliber Heckler & Koch handgun from a closet, only about seven feet away from the place in which they found Young.
2. Young contends that the trial court erred when it admitted the .40 caliber Heckler & Koch handgun into evidence even though that particular gun indisputably was not used to commit the crimes with which Young was charged. According to Young, the prosecution introduced this evidence in an attempt to portray him as a violent individual with access to guns and a propensity to shoot, the evidence was irrelevant and prejudicial, and it improperly lessened the State's burden of proving that Young did not act in self-defense. As a general rule, however, "the circumstances connected with a defendant's arrest are admissible, even if such circumstances incidentally place the defendant's character in issue." Nichols v. State, 282 Ga. 401, 403(2), 651 S.E.2d 15 (2007) (citations omitted). And the admission or exclusion of such evidence "lies within the sound discretion of the trial court, whose decision will not be disturbed on appeal absent a clear abuse of discretion." Benford v. State, 272 Ga. 348, 350(3), 528 S.E.2d 795 (2000) (citation and punctuation omitted). A trial court generally does not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of the circumstances surrounding the defendant's arrest unless "the evidence is wholly unrelated to the charged crime, the arrest is remote in time from the charged crime, and the evidence is not otherwise shown to be relevant." Hanes v. State, 294 Ga. 521, 524(3), 755 S.E.2d 151 (2014) (citation and punctuation omitted.).
In a recent murder case, we decided that, because a weapon seized at the time of the defendant's arrest — two-and-a-half months after the murder — was "largely identical to the murder weapon in size, style, and brand," it was "both probative of the general circumstances of [the defendant's] arrest and highly relevant to the murder and aggravated assault, which were committed with a similar weapon." Hanes v. State, 294 Ga. at 524(3), 755 S.E.2d 151. In this case, Young's arrest occurred just three days after the murder, and the murder weapon, which was never recovered, was proved to be a .40 caliber pistol. Because the weapon found at the time of Young's arrest was also a pistol and was of the same caliber as well (though not of the same brand as the murder weapon), we think that it was relevant and that the arrest was not too remote in time for that relevant evidence to be admitted. See id.; Manuel v. State, 315 Ga.App. 632, 633(1), 727 S.E.2d 246 (2012); Simmons v. State, 251 Ga.App. 682, 684(1), 555 S.E.2d 59 (2001). Consequently, we conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the .40 caliber Heckler & Koch into evidence.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur, except Hunstein, J., who concurs in Division 1 and in the judgment.