London police are seeking a Calgary man in the shooting death of a London teen who died tracking his lost cellphone.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Muhab Sultanaly Sultan, 23, of Calgary on a charge of second-degree murder, police said Friday evening.

Sultan is accused of shooting Jeremy Cook, 18, of London. Cook’s body was found at 5:20 a.m. on June 14 behind a plaza at the corner of Highbury Avenue and Huron Street.

The teen’s death was front page news across Canada and sparked a debate about the dangers of using apps to track down lost or stolen cellphones.

Police say Cook had left his cellphone in a cab last weekend. He used a device to track the phone and went with a relative to a parking lot on Highbury Avenue.

Cook approached a silver car with three men inside, police said.

One of the men got out of the car and walked away.

The driver stepped on the gas. Cook grabbed the driver’s door and held onto the car as it drove north on Highbury before turning into a strip mall parking lot. Police responding to reports of gunshots found his body behind a drug store.

The car was found in a residential neighbourhood near the plaza. Cook’s phone was found in the area by a citizen.

A London police spokesperson wouldn’t say whether investigators believe Sultan has returned to Calgary or remains in Ontario.

“We’re still conducting the investigation,” Const. Kimberly Flett said, adding Sultan is known to police.

Police say anyone who sees Sultan should call 911 and not approach him.

A man by the same name, and roughly the same age, was arrested in London in 2011 for cocaine trafficking and gun charges.

Police got a call about a knife fight on Salisbury Avenue on Jan. 12 and came across two men involved in the scrap.

One ran from police but was soon captured. His brother tried to help him escape and was arrested too, police said.

Officers seized a 9 mm handgun, along with a magazine capable of holding 15 rounds of ammunition.

The London police guns and drugs section searched a vehicle and seized 1.9 grams of cocaine worth about $190 then.

A Muhab Sultan, then 19, was charged with causing a disturbance, breaking probation, careless use and storage of a firearm and ammunition, cocaine trafficking and other firearms infractions.

His brother, 21, was charged with possession of a firearm while prohibited, possession of a loaded regulated firearm, trafficking in cocaine and other firearms infractions.

It’s not certain the man arrested in 2011 in London is the same as the one police are seeking.

A man named Muhab Sultan, whose photograph shows a remarkable similarity to the one police issued, ran a moving business in Calgary.

His online profile suggests he began the business in 2012 after the family moved to Alberta from somewhere in Ontario.

His phone number took one message from The Free Press before a second call revealed his mailbox was full.

The voice message said callers had reached Muhab Sultan, but did not mention the moving business.

Police are still looking for two other suspects, neither of whom have been identified, in Cook’s slaying.

One is described as a black man with very short hair who was wearing a black jacket or shirt and a fitted hat.

The other, who police say walked away from the car during the confrontation, is a black man with a slim build. Police are appealing for him to contact police and identify himself.

Originally from Brampton, Cook had recently graduated from Notre Dame Catholic School and was heading to Fanshawe College to study carpentry.

The ambitious teen had started his own business, Cottage Chairs, building and selling cottage chairs.

An online fundraiser set up for Cook’s family on Wednesday had raised more than $30,000by Friday night.

Cook’s funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Monday at St. Anne’s Roman Catholic Church in Brampton.

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