ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A 26-year-old man has been charged in relation to the killing and death of 16-year-old CBC student and hockey player Colin Brown.
Garrett Jordan, 26, was charged Friday with first-degree murder, 2 counts of armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and assault.
"Despite the arresting charges, it won't bring Colin Brown back," said St. Louis Police Chief Robert Tracy in a press conference Friday with reporters. "As a father myself, I pray this can bring a sense of relief and peace to Colin's family."
Brown was shot by a stray bullet and critically injured while riding in an SUV with his father at I-55 and Bates Avenue. St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department say it happened around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 23.
Police say the father continued to drive and stopped at 4th and Walnut where police and EMS met him. Brown died four days, later, according to St. Louis Metropolitan Police, with his organs donated to other patients.
The probable cause statement states that an Audi was shooting at a separate vehicle entering I-55 from Minnesota Avenue when a stray bullet struck and killed Brown. Jordan, who was recently released from federal prison, was in the vehicle at the time of the shooting.
Police interviewed a witness who told officers he noticed the Audi was often parked outside a home on Minnesota Avenue, which would later be determined where Jordan resided.
Jordan was been arrested by police on Thursday after police got a search warrant and traced his phone's location data to the scene of the crime, according to the probable cause statement.
Authorities would later on be able to obtain information on the Audi's license plate and would later find the Audi at an address owned by one of Jordan's family members.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore told reporters Friday in a press conference that the phone data and witness interviews proved to be crucial in identifying Jordan, but he also said they relied on video evidence.
"That video evidence, a substantial amount of it comes from Ring cameras on people houses, so that cooperation was very helpful in the investigation," said Gore. "As always, in these investigations, we rely heavily on cooperation of the the community."
Police aren't ruling out a second shooter, with the probable cause statement saying evidence seized on I-55 included over 20 cartridge casings, with the casings tracing back to a handgun and a rifle.
Chief Tracy anticipates "others will be charged" as the investigation continues, though authorities did not explicitly identify Jordan as someone who fired shots.
"Nowhere in the probable cause statement says he is the shooter," said Gore during the press conference.