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A false stolen vehicle report led police to the 20-year-old man suspected of being an accomplice in the deadly shooting outside the Sunshine Theater last week.
Jordan Bryant was arrested Friday on one count of murder, tampering with evidence and accessory to a crime, according to a criminal complaint.
Police are now looking for a second suspect, 25-year-old John W. Jones, also known as “John Willie” or “Willie.” Police said on Monday that Jones was the shooter. He is considered armed and dangerous, police said.
Police say Bryant was present when Jones shot and killed 20-year-old John Pressley in Downtown Albuquerque on Thursday after a confrontation at a rap concert at the Sunshine Theater.
The confrontation spilled over into the parking lot following the concert, police said. Just a few minutes past midnight, Pressley and his brother were outside the theater when a man in a gold, four-door Lincoln sedan, shot him dead with a rifle, police said. A second man was shot in the arm but was not seriously injured.
Police tracked Bryant down after his girlfriend falsely reported her car stolen just minutes after the shooting, the complaint states. Police found her car a few hours later on Edith and Garfield SE, a little more than a mile away from the crime scene. The next day, Bryant’s girlfriend, who has not been charged with a crime, called police and said she believed her car may have been involved in a shooting during the time it was stolen.
When police interviewed her, the girlfriend changed her story numerous times, at first saying it was stolen while she was at Bryant’s apartment and later saying it was stolen while she was at work. She eventually told police she had lent her car to Bryant, who called her around midnight on Thursday and instructed her to report the car stolen, according to the complaint. She obliged.
Police found bullet holes in the car, which also matched the description witnesses gave.
— This article appeared on page C1 of the Albuquerque Journal
