Friday, March 14, 2008 | 4:42 p.m.
Thayer Burton, 17, who is already in police custody for the shooting of a Palo Verde High School student and is now a suspect in the November murder of an Ashley Furniture store manager.
An investigation into a school shooting death has led Metro police into finding a suspect in another murder that happened last fall.
While Metro Police investigated the shooting death of Palo Verde High School student Chris Privett, police also received information identifying a teenage boy as a suspect in the murder of an Ashley Furniture store manager.
Thayer Burton, 17, has been charged with the murder of Robert Bills, Ashley Furniture store manager, on March 13. Bills was shot as he left his store at 3130 N. Rainbow Blvd., on Nov. 23, 2007.
Although the information on the Ashley Furniture crime was developed during the high school shooting investigation, the two crimes are not linked, Metro Police said.
Burton has been in the Clark County Detention Center since January on unrelated robbery charges. He has been certified as an adult to face those charges, police said.
Police said that Burton is expected to be certified as an adult in the Bills murder.
(Editor's note: This story has been corrected. In an earlier version, Burton was also identified as having been a suspect in the death of the Palo Verde High School student.)
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