Cell phone video helps ID drive-by shooter
Jan 25, 2013, 3:22 PM | Updated: 4:35 pm
Cell phone video helped detectives identify and locate two teenagers suspected in a drive-by shooting Thursday that wounded a 15 year old boy near Lacey.
The video showed a fight two days earlier between the shooting victim and one of two teenagers now under arrest.
“Nowadays, it seems like the cell phone, camcorders come on and it’s amazing how much footage is out there and how much stuff often times ends up getting released,” said Thurston County Sheriff’s Sergeant Ray Brady.
Witnesses say six to eight shots were fired at three people walking on Samurai Drive Thursday afternoon.
The 15 year old boy was shot in the thigh.
Brady says detectives arrested the 16-year-old suspected driver Friday morning and then picked up the suspected shooter, 18, later at River Ridge High School.
Apparently, there was longstanding bad blood between two groups of kids.
“All indications from our investigation are that this is between the 16-year-old suspect and the victim, this had been kind of an ongoing, long-term kind of dispute,” explained Brady.
The teens are held on suspicion of attempted murder, assault and drive-by shooting.
