Man charged in death of 9-year-old girl in Ferguson

ST. LOUIS -- A suburban St. Louis man was charged Thursday with killing a 9-year-old girl who was sitting on her mother's bed, doing her homework, when shots were fired into her home.

St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch charged De'Eris Brown, 21, of O'Fallon, Missouri, with second-degree murder in the Aug. 18 killing of Jamyla Bolden. Brown also faces three counts of armed criminal action and two counts of unlawful use of a weapon by shooting at a building. He is jailed on $750,000 cash-only bond.

In a probable-cause statement, Ferguson, Missouri, officer William Ballard said Brown fired through a bedroom window.

Police did not release a possible motive for the shooting but said Jamyla was not targeted. They would not say whether someone else in the house, or thought to be in the house, was the target.