COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Nearly nine months after a gunshot victim’s body was found at an east Columbus construction site, police released new information which led to an arrest Wednesday.

According to the Columbus Division of Police homicide investigators executed several search warrants in connection to the death of Danyaze Evans-Kourouma, who was found dead on April 25, near the intersection of Noe-Bixby Road and Carbondale Drive in the Walnut Hills neighborhood.

Officers responded to reports of a suspicious death near a construction site at 2:05 p.m., where Evans-Kourouma was found by workers in the area. She was pronounced dead at 2:18 p.m. by the Columbus Fire Department.

An autopsy was performed the following day, and it was determined that Evans-Kourouma had suffered from a gunshot wound resulting in her death, although the circumstances surrounding the shooting remained unknown. Witnesses told police that the victim’s body was not at the construction site when they left around 5 p.m. the previous evening.

Almost nine months later, police identified Dayshawn McCrary, 23, as a suspect. Detectives were able to obtain phone records tying McCrary to Evans-Kourouma after a phone call was placed at 11:07 p.m. on April 24. A digital forensic mapping of the phone call placed Evans-Kourouma near the intersection of Lilley Avenue and East Livingston Avenue.

One hour later, police said the phone was traced to the location where her body was found. The phone was then traced to a home on Brinwood Place, McCrary’s listed address, located just over a mile from the crime scene.

Police said McCrary, 23, declined to provide a statement to CPD, which recovered at least one handgun and several other firearm parts inside his residence.

McCrary was arrested Wednesday and taken to Franklin County Jail. He is charged with murder and was issued a $1.5 million bond in Franklin County Municipal Court during an arraignment hearing.