A 17-year-old Pine Bluff man who allegedly shot another teenager Monday was shooting from the sunroof of a stolen vehicle, police said in a probable cause affidavit presented in district court Thursday.
Terrell Lavon Collier was arrested Tuesday after his photo and description were released to the media and on social media.
Collier is accused of shooting Decorion Jones, 15, who was found in the area of West 26th Avenue and Beech Street and taken to Jefferson Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead by a doctor in the emergency room in the early morning hours Tuesday.
According to the affidavit from Pine Bluff Police Department Detective Cassandra McAfee-Briggs, Jones received a gunshot wound to the lower back.
Jefferson County Coroner Chad Kelley said Tuesday the body of Jones was sent to the State Medical Examiner’s Office at Little Rock for an autopsy.
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Briggs-McAfee reported that security video from the area showed three men, including Jones, walking when a white SUV passed them. A man later identified by a witness as Collier came out of the sunroof and fired a large caliber rifle at the men.
After Collier was arrested, he was taken to the detective office; because he is a juvenile, his mother was present during the questioning.
During the questioning, he allegedly confessed to being in a white SUV with a sunroof, to knowing that the vehicle had been stolen in Little Rock, and to the fact that there were shots fired from a rifle.
At the request of Deputy Prosecutor Maxie Kizer, Pine Bluff District Judge John Kearney set bond for Collier at $500,000 after ruling prosecutors have probable cause to charge him with capital murder and with two counts of committing a terroristic act. Collier is being charged as an adult.
That allegation deals with the other two individuals who were with Jones at the time of the shooting.
Kearney also ordered Collier to have no contact with the other two alleged victims until the case is finished.
The Public Defender’s Office was appointed to represent Collier, who will be 18 on Tuesday.