A 16-year-old boy charged in a deadly Birmingham shooting messaged a friend on Facebook saying that he shot the victim, stood over him while he was coughing up blood and then searched his body, a detective testified.

The young suspect, whose name is not being released because of his age, is charged with capital murder in the March 21 killing of 20-year-old Dorian Jackson.

The teen is also charged with attempted murder in the wounding of Jackson’s girlfriend and a 12-year-old boy, who was seriously injured.

The murder happened during a reported robbery of a pair of Jordan 3 Retro Lucky Shorts shoes, shoes, which cost about $200.

The suspect appeared in court Thursday before Jefferson County Circuit Judge William Bell for a preliminary hearing. When the hearing ended, the judge ruled there was enough probable cause to send the case to a grand jury for indictment consideration.

Following the judge’s ruling, the suspect’s attorneys asked that he be allowed to be released on bond so he could continue with his education and work, which prosecutors strongly opposed.

“He set up a robbery, took a Glock switch and sprayed it, shot a guy 10 times in the chest, shot up a car, shot two occupants of that car and shot into a house as well,” Deputy District Attorney Aaron Brown said.

“He got an article about this crime, showed no remorse. It’s almost like he was bragging to his friends about it.”

“I think the community is not safe if he is out,” Brown said.

Bell denied the suspect bond.

The shooting happened just after 9:35 p.m. that Friday.

South Precinct officers were dispatched to the 200 Block of Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard on report of a person shot.

Officers arrived on the scene and were alerted to Jackson lying in a back yard in the 300 block of Iota Avenue suffering from a gunshot wound. Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service transported the victim to UAB where he died Saturday morning.

Jackson’s girlfriend and the adolescent boy showed up at Princeton Baptist Medical Center.

The girlfriend had been shot in the arm. The 12-year-old boy had been shot multiple times in the back and suffered life-threatening injuries.

Birmingham homicide Det. Jarvelius Tolliver testified in Thursday’s hearing that police were notified of multiple shots fired that night.

Shot Spotter alerted them to the gunfire, and Jackson’s girlfriend also called 911.

The girlfriend told police that she was on her way to the hospital. She also told them that she had taken Jackson to meet someone at the Titusville location where the shooting happened for him to sell or “trade” the Jordans.

She said Jackson got out of the car to meet the suspect and was shot moments later. She said the suspect then came to the vehicle wearing a mask and brandishing a gun.

The suspect, she said, took Jackson’s phone out of the car before she was able to get away.

The girlfriend only knew the suspect’s street name. Police were able to identify the suspect and located him at his mother’s house.

During the search warrant, detectives seized the suspect’s cell phone. After obtaining a search warrant for the cell phone, Tolliver said, they analyzed the messages and location data on the suspect’s phone.

Tolliver said the location data put the suspect at 309 Iota Avenue, the location where Shot Spotter registered gunfire and where Jackson was found wounded.

At 9:22 p.m., the detective said, a phone call was made from the suspect’s phone via Facebook to Jackson’s FB messenger. Within a few minutes, Jackson’s car was seen on surveillance footage pulling up to the Iota Avenue location.

“You can hear the shooting and eventually you see the victim’s car drive off and you see the suspect vehicle drive off,” Tolliver said.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found a Balenciaga shoe box that had bullet holes in it. There were no shoes in the box.

“I could see messages in his phone where he had messaged someone and had started to describe the incident that had taken place,” Tolliver said.

“He sent somebody a news article that was done about the incident and told them it was at the bottom of the page.”

“(The suspect) also messages someone and started telling them about the details of the incident, about how he shot the victim, stood over him while he was coughing up blood,” Tolliver said.

“He searched the victim and asked him where the gun was at and the victim motioned and told him it was in the car.”

During a search warrant at the suspect’s home, Tolliver said, investigators found Jordan 3 Retro Lucky Shorts in the suspect’s closet.

Tolliver also testified that a photo on the suspect’s phone taken about two hours before the shooting showed him holding a Glock firearm with a machine gun conversion device.

The suspect was arrested and charged about a week after the shooting.

Prior to the judge’s ruling, the suspect’s attorney, Brittany Mercer of the Jefferson County Public Defender’s Office, argued that there was no evidence against her client.

“The detective has testified my client’s cell was present at the scene, but there’s been no testimony my client was present at the scene,” Mercer said.

“No one has been able to identify my client as the shooter, no one has picked him out of a lineup.”