JACKSON, Miss. — Jackson police have arrested a 22-year-old man in a Halloween-weekend shooting at the Hideaway nightclub that killed two people, local stations reported Friday^1,2.

Eddie Collier Jr. of Brandon was charged with two counts of capital murder and seven counts of aggravated assault, WAPT and WLBT reported, citing police and court proceedings^1,2. WAPT identified him as Eddie Collier Jr.; WLBT used Eddie Collier^1,2.

WAPT said police reported that two masked men entered the club on the I-55 frontage road and that at least one opened fire into a crowd¹. WLBT did not describe that sequence in its Friday update².

The dead were identified as 20-year-old Lovdai Poindexter and 18-year-old Jada Henderson, a Jackson State University student^1,2. WAPT said seven others were wounded¹. WLBT said six others were injured and listed them as four females, ages 18, 18, 19 and 20, and two males, ages 19 and 20².

WAPT said Collier was arrested Thursday¹. WLBT said he appeared in municipal court Friday, was denied bond on the capital murder counts and had bond set at $3.5 million on the assault charges, or $500,000 per count². WAPT likewise reported bond denied on the murder charges and $3.5 million cumulatively on the assault counts¹.

WAPT quoted Police Chief RaShall Brackney saying Collier had a history of law-enforcement encounters and was on probation, and that he had not reported to his probation officer since July¹. Brackney, per WAPT, listed prior arrests in Richland, Pearl and Ridgeland, including this year, involving controlled substances and weapons-related offenses¹. WLBT did not report that history in its Friday court-and-briefing item².

WLBT said Brackney was expected to hold a news conference Friday at 2 p.m.². WAPT said the shooting remains under investigation and that police asked anyone with information to contact the Jackson Police Department¹.