The 24-year-old Selma man charged in the city’s first murder of 2011 returned to jail under a $2 million bond Thursday after District Judge Bob Armstrong sent his case to a Dallas County grand jury.

Joseph Walters, 24, is accused of walking up to a car parked at 713 Second Ave., Selma, and firing into the vehicle, killing one, Rodney Walters, 48, and wounding another occupant.

Walters has said he is not the gunman identified by the car’s passenger, Timothy Moore.

During Thursday’s hearing, Selma police detective Sgt. Tori Neely told the court Moore, who suffered a grazed cheek during the shooting, identified Walters from a line-up card.

Neely also testified Moore told him Walters was accompanied by another individual. Police have not arrested another suspect, nor have they identified another suspect.

Neely said Walters told authorities he was in Montgomery with his girlfriend at the time of the shooting, about 1:15 a.m., Jan. 1.

“He said he was with his girlfriend, but she said he was not with her at the time of the shooting,” Neely told the court.

Authorities recovered about 40 shell casings at the scene of the shooting, beginning at the carport, where Moore and Rodney Walters sat, and trailing down to the street. The shell casings belonged to three different weapons: a 9 mm, a high-powered rifle and a .40-caliber handgun, according to Neely’s testimony.

The police detective said during the investigation he had obtained surveillance video from Walmart of Joseph Walters purchasing ammunition for a high-powered rifle the day before the shooting.

During cross-examination, Neely said, “I just think it’s a strange coincidence the same ammunition we found on the scene is the same ammunition he bought the day before.”

Defense attorney Kitt Walker of Birmingham asked Armstrong to reduce the bond to “a reasonable amount,” so Walters’ family could afford to bond him out.

Armstrong declined the request.

“At some point this community and the people in this community who chose to shoot up houses and neighborhoods will know they will suffer the consequences,” Armstrong said. “This is what we want people to know”