Overview
- Phoenix police said Thursday they arrested Andre Jermaine Gentry Nicholes in the 2023 killing of Karissa Danyelle Hamilton.
- Officers found Hamilton shot on Feb. 5, 2023, inside a running gray Nissan Altima at Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix.
- Investigators say officers working a separate case took Nicholes into custody and then questioned him about Hamilton’s death.
- Police report Nicholes made statements that linked him to the homicide, and detectives identified him as Hamilton’s boyfriend at the time.
- He was booked on first-degree murder, theft, and trafficking in stolen property, and his bond was set at $2 million.