Overview

• District Attorney Brooke Jenkins charged 42-year-old Edmund Bowen with murder, assault with a firearm, and a firearm enhancement in the Sept. 26 shooting.
• Bowen is expected to be arraigned Friday, and prosecutors said they will seek to detain him without bail.
• Investigators say the attack followed Joey Alexander, 60, asking a man to stop using drugs outside the Main Library in the Civic Center.
• Police and sheriff’s deputies arrested Bowen at the scene, and a second person was injured by shrapnel, according to the D.A.
• Alexander’s death has renewed scrutiny of Urban Alchemy’s unarmed street-practitioner model as the nonprofit and city leaders publicly mourn him.