Bullet from drive-by shooting went through apartment where 2 people were sleeping, charges say
Bullets from a drive-by shooting hit an apartment building Friday in Lakewood, including one apartment where two residents were sleeping, court records say.
Prosecutors charged two men each with three counts of drive-by shooting Tuesday.
Charging papers give this account:
The suspects, ages 20 and 21, took separate vehicles to a party at the apartment building, not far from 105th Avenue Southwest and 112th Street Southwest.
The men allegedly argued with someone at the party, started shooting in his direction, then left in their separate vehicles.
The person they argued with was not injured and didn’t know the suspects before the party.
Investigators found shell casings in the parking lot and bullet holes in the building. The bullet they found in the wall of the apartment where two people had been sleeping went through a bedroom and a closet and damaged one of the tenant’s military uniforms.
“That bullet would have traveled directly above” one of the sleeping victims, the declaration for determination of probable cause says.
Investigators also found a bullet in the outside wall of a different apartment in the building and damage from a bullet to a car in the parking lot.
Officers later found and stopped both suspected shooters.
One allegedly had rounds in his car with headstamps that matched the casings found at the scene. He said he didn’t fire any guns, and there weren’t any firearms in the vehicle.
The other suspect and the person driving the vehicle he was in said they didn’t know about the apartments and that they’d come from somewhere else.
