Saturday, October 17, 2009

3 Shots miss man; Yakima police arrest 3

YAKIMA, Wash. — Three teenagers were arrested Thursday night in connection with a gang-related shooting in which bullets struck a house and two parked cars.

The intended victim was not hit, according to a news release from the Yakima Police Department.

Officers were already in the area when they heard shots fired about 9:50 p.m. in the 1500 block of McKinley Avenue. Sgt. Joe Salinas, the department’s former gang unit sergeant, stopped a speeding vehicle nearby that contained three gang members or associates. A .357-caliber revolver and a 12-guage shotgun were in the trunk, current gang unit Sgt. Erik Hildebrand said in the news release.

The incident started when someone in a passing car shouted a gang challenge to a 19-year-old man near 16th and Lincoln avenues, Hildebrand said. The victim walked to McKinley, where an unknown male confronted him and fired six shots at him, he said. The victim then ran away.

The revolver found in the stopped car had all six shots fired, police said.

The car’s three male occupants — two 18-year-olds and a 16-year-old — were jailed on suspicion of first-degree assault.

The news release did not indicate that the victim had any gang ties.

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