An arrest has been made in connection with the first homicide in Omaha of 2009.

Tyrell D Jones, 18, has been charged of first degree murder for the shooting death of convenience store worker Laura Pierce. He'll likely stay in jail until trial. On Friday, a judge issued him a 'no bond.'

It was a little after 2am when two armed masked men stormed the Kwik Shop on 33rd and Q on January 2. They demanded money and got it. But on the way out the front door, they shot Pierce in the stomach and she died.

11-months later and no arrests. Many of her friends wondered whether the case would turn out to be one of those long-running cold cases.

"She was shy, maybe reserved but even in the months before she was killed she was enjoying friendships and people around her remarked that Laura is becoming all she is supposed to be it seemed like," says Rev. David Witkop of Thanksgiving! Lutheran Church in Bellevue. "It is hard to wrap our arms around the injustice in that."

What's still so hard for people to understand here is why did Laura Pierce have to die? Investigators say she cooperated. She didn't resist. She gave the two robbers the money and yet she was still shot and killed.

"It's troubling and disturbing," says Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine. "There's no reason for this.

The arrest affidavit outlines how investigators caught Jones. He touched the tray in the cash drawer. Police had his fingerprint and recently had something to finally match it to once he was arrested in another case. He had been in the State Juvenile Facility in Kearney on an unrelated charge.

Investigators don't believe he's the shooter. That guy is still out there.

"Her closest friends have struggled with foregiveness," says the pastor.