A Lubbock County grand jury indicted 19-year-old Hollis Daniels on Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting of a Texas Tech Police officer Floyd East Jr. last month.

Daniels is charged with capital murder, which carries a punishment of the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

Grand jurors sessions are held every Tuesday to hear felony-level cases for possible indictment. However, the Lubbock County District Attorney’s office called in the jurors on Wednesday for a special session to hear its case against Daniels.

The district attorney’s office declined to comment on whether it will be seeking the death penalty in this case. However, the Regional Public Defenders Office for Capital Cases was appointed to represent Daniels on Oct. 19. The RPDO handles capital murder cases in which the death penalty is a possible punishment.

Daniels was arrested Oct. 9 at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum on the Tech campus after a nearly two-hour search that began when a Tech police officer heard gunshots from the university police station’s briefing room and found East shot in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Daniels was last seen in the room with East, who was completing paperwork for the Daniels’ arrest on an earlier drug charge.

Earlier that evening, East and two other police officers had responded to a welfare check call to Daniels dorm room in the Talkington Residence Hall, according to court documents. Police received a report from Daniel’s roommates that they heard a gunshot from his room where they believed he also sold marijuana.

The officers searched Daniel’s room and found prescription anti-anxiety pills and drug paraphernalia. Court documents state the officers patted down the suspect and found no weapons on him before they arrested him and brought him to the police station. Investigators with the Texas Department of Public Safety are reviewing the shooting to determine how Daniels managed to bring the weapon into the police headquarters after he was patted down.

An arrest warrant states investigators found a .45 caliber shell casing near East’s body. In a drainage area near the police headquarters where investigators believe Daniels traveled when he escaped after the shooting, police found a .45 caliber pistol reported stolen earlier that day from a home in the 3400 block of 28th Street. The gun owner previously told Lubbock police he believed Daniels stole the weapon from his bedroom.

A Lubbock police officer stopped Daniels early Oct. 9 — while investigating the reported theft of the gun — as the teen was traveling in a silver BMX SUV in the 3300 block of 19th Street. The officer didn’t find the weapon on Daniels, who refused to consent to a search of his vehicle. The officer released Daniels because he didn’t have enough evidence to detain him or get a search warrant for the SUV.

Hollis remains held at the Lubbock County Detention Center. His bond is set at $5 million.