A decide set bail at $500,000 for a 20-year-old Vancouver man accused of taking pictures a 16-year-old boy within the again throughout a gunfight Tuesday afternoon in central Vancouver.
Fnj Kenneth appeared Wednesday in Clark County Superior Courtroom on suspicion of first-degree assault and drive-by taking pictures. The decide granted the state’s request that Kenneth be prohibited from possessing firearms and be required to give up any weapons previous to his launch. He’s scheduled to be arraigned March 19.
Though Kenneth doesn’t have any legal historical past, the prosecutor stated he requested the excessive bail quantity as a result of the taking pictures occurred on the busy intersection of East Fourth Plain Boulevard and Fort Vancouver Means.
Vancouver police responded at 3:58 p.m. to a number of 911 callers reporting two individuals had been presumably taking pictures at each other, in keeping with court docket information.
Officers responded and located a boy, recognized as Herber Romero-Lara, contained in the close by Burgerville restaurant, 2200 E. Fourth Plain Blvd., with a grazing gunshot wound to his again. Police recovered a firearm in a nook of the restaurant, in keeping with court docket information.
Police might be heard on emergency radio site visitors, monitored by The Columbian, saying they recovered a number of shell casings north of McDonald’s, 2110 E. Fourth Plain Blvd.
Romero-Lara reportedly informed police he was on the McDonald’s with a good friend. Once they walked out, a male sporting a crimson shirt approached them and stated, “What’s up with it?” Romero-Lara stated he responded equally. That’s when a person sporting “red bandana-style pants” pulled out a gun and began firing at him, in keeping with court docket information.
Romero-Lara stated he ran, drew his personal P80 handgun and returned fireplace with two or three rounds earlier than getting into Burgerville, court docket information state.
Officers reviewed surveillance video within the space and noticed a person, later recognized by police as Kenneth, taking pictures a firearm. Kenneth then acquired right into a automobile and drove away, in keeping with court docket information.
A witness informed police a gaggle of individuals ran north on Fort Vancouver Means after the taking pictures. Officers contacted a gaggle of youngsters who matched the witness’s description, together with Kenneth’s brother, court docket information state.
Investigators seen Kenneth’s social media profiles and located pictures and movies of him posing with firearms, together with pictures of the automobile Kenneth was seen on surveillance video driving away in, in keeping with court docket information.
Officers additionally discovered somebody had referred to as 911 about quarter-hour earlier than he taking pictures to report 5 teenagers had been waving weapons round and taking pictures of their weapons on the dashboard of a automobile, court docket information state.
Kenneth declined to talk with officers, in keeping with court docket information.
Romero-Lara appeared Wednesday morning in Clark County Juvenile Courtroom on allegations of illegal possession of a firearm and illegal discharge of a firearm. He was ordered to stay in juvenile detention and is scheduled to be arraigned March 14, court docket information present.