The shooting earlier this month outside the Granada was not gang-related, but the exact motive isn’t yet clear despite the arrest of an 18-year-old Topeka man, Lawrence Police Chief Ron Olin said this morning.

In a press conference at the Judicial & Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., Olin said police have not stopped investigating now that Rashawn T. Anderson has been arrested in the Feb. 5 shooting death of Robert E. Williams outside the Granada, 1020 Mass.

“I think we can say with absolute certainty that Mr. Williams was the target,” Olin said.

But Olin said police still were trying to nail down details of what happened outside the club, including the exact chronology of events and the motive.

“This is not over,” he said.

A 22-year-old man also was injured in the shooting, but it was not yet clear today whether Anderson would be charged in that shooting. He is expected to make a first appearance in District Court this afternoon, when Dist. Atty. Charles Branson’s office will file formal charges.

Olin said investigators were led to Anderson last week but that there wasn’t enough evidence to arrest him until yesterday. Police set up surveillance in Topeka and arrested Anderson after a traffic stop.

Olin said police came into contact with gang members during the investigation, but that he didn’t know whether Anderson was a gang member. And he said the shooting itself was not gang-related.

In the days after the shooting, Williams’ widow, LaTonia Coleman, told the Journal-World a stranger had shot her husband after the stranger interjected himself in a family dispute about money that began inside the club and continued outside the club.

Olin said Coleman’s version “would fit roughly within what we believe occurred.”

A search of Anderson’s name on Shawnee County District Court records turns up no previous criminal charges.