Dallas police announced the arrest of a suspect Thursday in connection to a fatal shooting that took place in July in Fair Park.

Laquest Sirls, 23, was taken into custody and booked into Dallas County jail in lieu of a $1.5 million bond.

Sirls was recently on probation after pleading guilty to charges of aggravated robbery in 2021, according to The Dallas Morning News.

He now is being held on one count of murder stemming from a shooting incident that left a woman dead and four others injured.

Officers from the Dallas Police Department were called to the 3000 block of Al Lipscomb Way in the early hours of July 16 on reports of shots fired. At the scene, officers discovered 24-year-old Shaniah Jones, who was unresponsive, and four unnamed victims suffering non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

All five victims had been attending a block party being thrown in the area when multiple unidentified individuals wearing ski masks began firing at the crowd from a dark SUV.

As indicated by an arrest affidavit, surveillance footage from the scene taken before the shooting showed Sirls driving what is believed to be the same vehicle, according to Fox 4 KDFW.

Records also allegedly pinpointed Sirls’ phone to be in the vicinity of where the vehicle involved in the shooting was later abandoned.

Jones was the mother of two children, a 2-year-old son and a 1-year-old daughter.

“Shaniah was a ray of sunshine to all who knew her,” read a GoFundMe page set up in her children’s names. The fundraising initiative had raised $6,879 as of September 1.

The shooting incident occurred in District 7, which is represented by Council Member Adam Bazaldua.

Dallas has seen 166 homicides as of September 1, according to the City of Dallas Open Data crime overview dashboard. This marks a 6.7% increase year over year, with the DPD’s ability to respond to violent crime hampered by an ongoing shortage of police officers.

A City report previously advised that a city the size of Dallas needs to be policed with about 4,000 officers, yet it is currently served by about 3,100 sworn officers.

While Downtown Dallas in particular regularly logs high crime rates, the downtown area of neighboring Fort Worth, where a special police unit works alongside private security guards to monitor the area, sees considerably less crime.