17-year-old arrested in Michigan in connection with Yorktown HS player’s killing

MUNCIE, Ind. — Detectives on Thursday arrested a 17-year-old in Michigan in connection with the killing of a 17-year-old Yorktown High School football player who was found shot to death two weeks ago inside a vehicle.

Muncie police say its detectives and members of the Detroit Violent Gang Task Force arrested Dairus E. Thompson III, the Muncie Police Department said in a news release. Muncie police did not say where the 17-year-old was being held in Michigan.

Detectives filed a probable cause affidavit for him on Tuesday, preliminarily charging him with a top-level felony of aiding, inducing or causing murder; a top-level felony of conspiracy to commit murder; and a low-level felony of obstruction of justice by altering, damaging or removing a document, according to online court records. The records do not say where the 17-year-old suspect lives.

The arrest is the second in the death of Christopher Wilson Jr. The Yorktown High School junior in June committed to play football at West Virginia.

Dairus Thompson II, of Farmland, faces a hearing on Monday in Delaware Circuit Court 1 on the same charges as Thompson III in connection with Wilson’s death. The elder Thompson is 40. Thompson II was being held in Delaware County jail on a separate, unrelated case.

Police have not said if the two Thompsons are related.

Police had called the arrest of the Thompson II “one milestone” in the investigation.

Wilson was found fatally shot multiple times inside a vehicle around 3 a.m. Oct. 5 in the 1400 block of East Cromer Avenue in Muncie. That’s in the R&M Land Co. subdivision northeast of the intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard and East Centennial Avenue.

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