Dalonna Jackson (center) with her sister Curnijah Howard and aunt Jaychelle Jackson. Police Chief Jacobson hugs Daily's grandmother, Theresa Howard, before the start of Wednesday's presser. (Updated) In front of dozens of family members and friends and police officers and city leaders, all grieving the murder of 17-year-old Daily Jackson while they expressed gratitude for the arrest of his 17-year-old alleged killer, Dalonna Jackson walked to the microphone to pray.She prayed for the teen accused of killing her brother.“To the person who did this, I pray God’s strength upon you,” Dalonna said.She wore dark sunglasses and — like many in the crowd on the third floor of police headquarters at 1 Union Ave. on Wednesday — she also wore a sweater and pin depicting the name and face of her late brother, Daily.“I pray that God shows you that there’s another way in life but this,” Dalonna continued, looking slightly up from the microphone and continuing to address the 17-year-old suspect in Daily’s Dec. 3 death.“I pray for your family, that they’re able to sleep at night. I pray that you’re able to sleep at night.”She looked at the phalanx of tv news cameras and reporters across from her, as she stood alongside Police Chief Karl Jacobson, Mayor Justin Elicker, New Haven Public Schools Supt. Madeline Negrón, her sisters, her aunts, her mom, her grandmother, her pastor.“And I just pray that you find in your heart to at least say sorry to us,” Dalonna concluded. ​“Because we need it. You took the biggest part of our lives.”Daily's mom, Nikkia Howard: "It was a mother's fear to have boys because of all of the things happening around me." One of Daily's godfathers, Colin Ryan: "Justice is a necessary precondition for peace." Another one of Daily's godfathers, Scott Marks: Daily had two funerals, but the whole family was together Wednesday. Some of the many attendees at Wednesday's presser. Dalonna wasn’t the only family member of Daily’s to speak at Wednesday’s press conference, where Jacobson and Asst. Chief David Zannelli described the arrest of Daily’s alleged killer, who is now being held on a $5 million bond.She also wasn’t the only one to pray for the young person who had allegedly committed this violent crime, even as family members shed tears and remembered what a bright light Daily was in their lives.“I pray for this young man,” said Jaychelle Jackson, Daily’s aunt, who said she raised Daily. ​“As broken as he left all of the people in this room, I still forgive him. I still forgive him, because Daily’s at peace.”“I still don’t hate the person who did this,” said Daily’s oldest sister, Curnijah Howard. She prayed that this type of violence and loss never beset anyone else, as it’s a hurt that can’t be recovered from.And Daily’s mom, Nikkia Howard, spoke through tears about how she had now lost the youngest of her five kids — 16 years after she lost Daily’s father, also named Daily, to gun violence in New Haven. She said she knows the family of the alleged shooter very well — so well as if they were family of her own.“I can’t hold hate in my blood,” she said, even as she grieved.“I’m just asking kids and mothers,” Howard said, ​“please, let the violence go.”See below for an earlier version of this story.Teen Arrested For Teen's MurderDaily Jackson, as pictured at his Dec. 19 funeral. Police have arrested a 17-year-old New Havener for the December shooting death of 17-year-old Riverside Academy student Daily Jackson.City police spokesperson Officer Christian Bruckhart announced that arrest in a Tuesday morning press release.He wrote that the 17-year-old suspect was taken into custody and transported to the juvenile detention facility in Bridgeport on Monday. He declined to identify the suspect until his case is transferred to adult court, which is expected to take place on Wednesday.Bruckhart told the Independent that the 17-year-old suspect has been charged with murder, criminal possession of a firearm, criminal possession of a pistol, and illegal carrying of a pistol without a permit.Bruckhart also wrote in Tuesday’s press release that the police chief, the mayor, police command staff, and Jackson’s family members will gather at police headquarters at 1 p.m. Wednesday for a press conference about the arrest. Monday’s arrest comes more than a month after Jackson was shot and killed at around 6:41 p.m. on Dec. 3 while walking on Shelton Avenue near Huntington Street in Newhallville. His homicide in turn came less than two weeks after 16-year-old Uzziah Shell, a fellow Riverside Academy student and friend of Jackson’s, was shot dead near Goffe and Hudson streets in the Dixwell neighborhood on Nov. 22. At a funeral service and memorial in honor of Jackson, his loved ones remembered him as a ​“beautiful spirit,” as someone dedicated to his friends and family, as ​“an adorable kid who was bustling with energy.”Jackson’s and Shell’s homicides sent shockwaves through the community and the city’s school system, as New Haveners grappled with the violent deaths in such close proximity of two young city residents, public school classmates, and friends. Police even reported moving at least one family out of town temporarily in order to avoid potential acts of retaliation. On Dec. 10, police announced that an anonymous donor had made available a $20,000 reward for anyone who provided information that led to the arrest and conviction of whoever was responsible for Jackson’s death.