A felony warrant was issued Thursday for the arrest of 18-year-old Adrian Lester, wanted for first-degree murder in the April 14th shooting death of Tielor Williams in Omaha’s Gallagher Park.

The 18-year-old Williams and 22-year-old Joshua Schmitt were shot at North 52nd Street and Northwest Radial Highway. They went to Methodist Hospital where Williams died a short time later.

Twenty-one-year-old Dennis Brewer Jr. has already been arrested in the case and is being held without bond for criminal homicide. He has been sent to jail twice in the past on misdemeanor charges.

Prosecutors said the gunfire occurred during a botched robbery. “This was two groups of individuals getting together,” Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said last Friday. “There were allegations that there was a robbery or an attempted robbery by some individuals and that is the time the shooting accord.”

Schmitt was released from the hospital on April 16th. “He was just sitting in the passenger seat. I’m sitting there constantly saying Tielor please stay with me, you know, just shaking him trying to keep him alive to get him to the hospital and he just didn’t make it.”

Williams’ father Wayne told WOWT 6 News last week by phone from Las Vegas that he spoke to his son about an hour before the shooting and he said everything seemed fine. “My mom called me this morning and told me that my son was shot and killed.”

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Omaha police said one person has been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting Monday night.

Dennis Brewer, 21, faces a count of criminal homicide, according to police.

Officers said the investigation continues into the shooting at Gallagher Park, just across the street from Benson High School.

As officers arrived at the scene to investigate a report of shots fired, authorities said, two shooting victims showed up at Methodist Hospital.  One died a short time later.

The deceased victim was identified as Tielor Williams, 18.  The victim who suffered non-life-threatening injuries was identified as Joshua Schmitt, 22.

Schmitt told KETV NewsWatch 7 he and Williams were hanging out at Schmitt’s house Monday night when three friends came over and told them about a fight at Gallagher Park later that night.

Schmitt said he and Williams were in the park’s parking lot later when two vehicles arrived. He said all of a sudden they heard one shot, and then another four went off. That’s when Schmitt took off.

“I’m in a rush to get to the hospital. My friend, he wasn’t talking, he wouldn’t do anything. He was just limp in the front seat,” Schmitt said.

Schmitt said there were eight to 10 people surrounding his truck, most of them were people he has never seen before, including Brewer.

Schmitt wonders if the shooting was somehow a gang initiation. Omaha police said any information about whether the shooting was a gang initiation will likely be brought to light once the case goes to court.