One suspect has already been charged with killing Heaven. Jerrell Dorsey, of the 1600 block of North Laramie Avenue, was charged last week with one count of first-degree murder in Sutton’s death. He was ordered held without bond. Police said Dorsey is a gangbanger and was aiming at a rival who apparently had stopped to buy lemonade.
Jerrell Dorsey, 26, was charged with one count of first-degree murder and one count of aggravated battery with a firearm.
Police said charges were pending against a second person who was in custody Thursday afternoon.
Heaven was killed on June 27 after two men approached a group of people in the 1700 block of North Luna late at night and opened fired, police said. A 19-year-old man also was shot, in the ankle.
Heaven had told her mother, Ashake Banks, 38, that she wanted to move out of North Austin – which the family had called home for six months – because of all the violence in the area.
She had just gotten her hair done for a trip to Disney World that had been planned for next month, and was outside with her mother as they sold lemonade, candy and snacks under a canopy set up in front of their home.