(KAIR)--Formal charges are filed in connection with an area shooting that left a man dead.

22-year-old Saint Joseph, Missouri resident Brandon Cox is charged with second degree murder for the shooting death of 28-year-old Clifford York.

York's body was discovered in the backyard of a Saint Joseph home, located at 921 North 13th Street, on October 10.

KQ2-TV, citing court documents, reports that Cox was living at the home when someone knocked on his bedroom window. A verbal dispute followed, with Cox grabbing a handgun from under his bed, and firing it through the window.

Cox allegedly left before police arrived.