ST. LOUIS – Charges have been filed in a fatal shooting earlier this week in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood.

Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department arrested Curtis L. Sills, 44, for the death of Shaun Mooring.

According to a police probable cause statement, the shooting took place in the pre-dawn hours of April 21 in the 3400 block of North Market Street.

Officers responded to a shooting call just before 5 a.m. and found Mooring lying in the street with multiple gunshot wounds. EMS arrived and pronounced Mooring dead at the scene. He was 43.

Police said detectives identified a brown Honda Accord in the vicinity at the time of the shooting and used Real Time Crime Center footage to track the vehicle and locate the driver, identified as Sills.

Police said they found Mooring’s wallet near Sills’ vehicle and a 9mm pistol under the head that matched shell casings found at the scene of the crime.

Sills allegedly admitted to possessing the gun and being at the scene of the shooting but gave contradictory accounts of what happened.

Prosecutors and police said Sills has a prior felony conviction, which prohibits him from owning or possessing firearms.

The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office charged Sills with first-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful possession of a firearm. Sills made his first court appearance Wednesday morning. He’s currently jailed without bond.