Anton McDaniels Jr., 14, was shot on June 11, 2015, in East St. Louis, Illinois, while walking home from a baseball game with his team. He and a 16-year-old boy were shot in the housing complex where Anton lived; Anton died of his wounds three days later and the other boy survived.

St. Clair County prosecutors charged 17-year-old Jemmane Whitehead Jr., of St. Louis, Missouri, with murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in connection with the shooting. Anton’s father said Anton was a straight-A student at Fanning Middle School who was due to begin a public charter school that fall. Online court records in the case did not indicate whether Whitehead had an attorney at the time the charges were filed. Specific details about motive and other investigative findings were not disclosed.