Since early January, Carl Brown has remained in the Dallas County Jail, charged with the murder of Clanton resident Julius Collins Burnett.

While charges have been levied, a ruling of no bond handed down and the case set to go before the Dallas County Grand Jury, the investigation into exactly what happened continues.

Nearly six months after Burnett’s body was discovered on a property near an old drag strip on Dallas County Road 74, a dive team from the Chilton County Sheriff’s Department began searching a local river bank, looking for the weapon believed used in the murder.

“During our interviews, we were told Mr. Brown went down by the civil rights park near the bridge, down to the [Alabama River] bank and threw the weapon into the river,” Dallas County Sheriff’s Department investigator Sgt. Mike Granthum said. “We have continued the investigation and we were able to partner with the Chilton County Sheriff’s Department and their dive team.”

The team spent the better part of Tuesday maneuvering along the bank of the river near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, searching for the suspected weapon. There were no reports Tuesday as to whether or not they were able to find it.

Burnett was reportedly shot twice in the head with the handgun authorities have continued to look for.

Brown remains in the Dallas County Jail under no bond, charged with capital murder, theft of property first degree and six counts of fraudulent use of a credit card.

Brown was captured after law enforcement agencies began tracking the use of Burnett’s credit cards and discovered cash had been withdrawn from a local ATM, Dallas County Sheriff Harris Huffman said in an interview with the Times-Journal in January. Later, Brown was found driving Burnett’s green Mazda Tribute on Luker Circle. He was taken into custody at that point and found to have Brown’s credit card in his pocket.

Huffman said during the interview that Brown confessed to the murder.