MORGAN HILL – A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in reference to a capturing earlier this 12 months in Morgan Hill.
The capturing was reported simply after 3 p.m. Jan. 16 close to West Foremost and Crest avenues, based on the Morgan Hill Police Division. After arriving on the scene, officers decided two male youths had been concerned in an altercation, which ended with one in all them brandishing a handgun and firing a number of photographs on the different.
Nobody was hit by the gunfire, however a close-by enterprise and a parked automotive have been struck, police mentioned.
An investigation led to the identification of the youth who fired the gun, police mentioned.
On Thursday, officers noticed the teenager using an electrical bicycle on Dewitt Avenue close to East Edmundson Avenue and took him into custody with out incident, police mentioned.
A search warrant was served on the youth’s house. Officers discovered firearms, metallic knuckles and ammunition, police mentioned.
The teenager was booked into Santa Clara County Juvenile Corridor on fees of assault with a lethal weapon, discharge of a firearm in a grossly negligent method, possession of a concealable firearm, possession of ammunition and possession of metallic knuckles.
The youth is the second to be arrested in reference to a capturing prior to now 16 days in Morgan Hill, based on police. Final month, authorities arrested a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of firing a gun at one other individual throughout an altercation Feb. 11 on the Solar Valley Market on Monterey Highway. Nobody was injured in that capturing.
Anybody with info associated to the more moderen case can contact Detective Ryan Warren at 669-253-4894 or ryan.warren@morganhill.ca.gov.