A 20-year-old student at Alabama State University has been charged with shooting and killing a fellow student whose body was found less than a quarter-mile away from campus. According to the Montgomery Advertiser, Ivry Hall is the suspect in the shooting of 22-year-old Adam Dowdell Jr., who was reported missing on Sept. 8 and found dead six days later.

Dowdell never returned after leaving his dorm room to go to an ATM police said, as Blavity previously reported. His body was found near a high school close to ASU's campus.

"Today, the Montgomery Police Department announced an arrest in the death of Adam Dowdell. The suspect is also an ASU student," the school's president, Quinton Ross, said in a statement after Hall's arrest.

Police didn't release any additional information in connection to the shooting, according to AL.com.

“The circumstances surrounding the shooting are unknown. However, Hall was identified as the suspect. There is no additional information available for release in connection to this continuing investigation,” police said.

During a vigil at Alabaster’s Buck Creek Park on Thursday, Dowdell's mother, Toya Cohill, hinted that the suspect is someone who knew her son. 

Rev. Michael Pfleger, who mentored Hall in Chicago, said he was shocked when he heard the news about the killing.

“I really don’t know this — what he’s being accused of, I’ve not seen nor known that person. I don’t know him," Pfleger told The Chicago Tribune. "I do know the Ivry who’s a kind kid, who’s a gentle spirit, who’s been faithful at church, who’s always pushing himself as a student. That’s the Ivry I know and that I believe in.” 

Pfleger said he talked with Hall recently when the young man returned to Chicago. That's when he advised the young man to turn himself into authorities in Alabama, which he did.

"He was back in Chicago for a couple of days," Pfleger said. "I spoke with him and sought to pastor him and counsel him. He’s in Alabama now; he turned himself in on Friday. He does have a lawyer, and now we’ve got to be sure we get all the information and all the stuff out of what happened." 

Speaking at the vigil, Cohill said she "wouldn’t wish what happened to her son on her worst enemy."

"Make sure the person you call your friend is really your friend,'' the 22-year-old's mother said. “Be cautious on who you call your friend. Everybody that smiles in your face is not your friend. You have to limit yourself, limit the people who know your A to your Z.”

As a transfer student, Dowdell was majoring in physical education. The sophomore, who also went by “Belle,” was known as a standout football player. His loved ones described the student as an aspiring special education teacher, a middle child and an uncle. 

In a documentary, which captured his trials and tribulations, Hall was seen mentoring younger students, urging them to learn from his mistakes. 

“Everybody think y’all can’t do it, but I believe in y’all. So before you think about going in the streets and doing any of the things that I did, just think about the chance that you was given," he said. "Think about the stuff you’re learning, think about the stuff that you can teach people now, you feel me? Think about those things.”

He is being held at a Montgomery County detention facility on $250,000 bond.

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