EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Evansville police have made a second arrest in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old James Brown.
Ayden D. Simms, 17, was arrested and preliminarily charged with murder in connection with the shooting, the Evansville Police Department said in a Facebook post on Thursday. Simms was being held as an adult at the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center. He had a probable cause hearing scheduled for Friday morning in Vanderburgh Superior Court 3, according to online records, which also showed no charge yet filed against him.
Keaton M. Howard, 18, was located and taken into custody days earlier in Morganfield, Kentucky. According to court records, no initial hearing has been set in Vanderburgh Superior Court 3 as of Friday. Howard faces a preliminary murder charge and will be extradited to the Vanderburgh County Confinement Center, police said.
The shooting happened at 10:59 p.m. Oct. 11 in the 800 block of Madison Avenue, located in the Tepe Park neighborhood several blocks northwest of the I-69 interchange with U.S. 41 in Evansville.
After 911 callers reported gunfire, officers arrived and found Brown dead.
The investigation is not done. Anyone with information was asked to contact the police department’s adult investigation unit at 812-436-7979.
