A break in a four month old murder case. Police have a suspect in the murder of an Ashley Furniture Store employee. Thursday night, a teenager has been charged in the November shooting of Robert Bills.

Thayer Burton is already in the Clark County Detention Center. Police say robbery was the motive and a recent school shooting helped them connect the dots in the Ashley Furniture case.

Police added murder charges to his unrelated armed robbery charges. He will face those murder charges as an adult. Metro police say Burton waited in the parking lot of the Ashley Furniture Store near Rainbow and Cheyenne Nov. 23.

When the store manager Robert Bills walked out to make a nightly deposit, police say Burton confronted him. Metro says Burton shot and killed Bills then ran without taking any of the money.

Still money was at the heart of this murder according to Captain Randy Montandan. “We believe that the motivation behind this crime was robbery. It was financial gain. He was attempting to commit an armed robbery. The robbery went bad, and he subsequently shot the victim Mr. Bills.”

The store manager pulled himself back inside the store to call for help. He later died at the hospital. Burton was expelled Jan. 11 from Legacy High School. But police say it was another high school shooting case that broke this one open.

Burton was identified as a suspect in this murder during the investigation of a drive-by shooting outside Palo Verde High School. A 15-year-old was killed in that case. The shootings are not connected.

This is the fourth shooting by a teenager this year according to our records.