Teens sentenced for shooting up Lakewood home

Two teenagers who shot up a Lakewood home last year have pleaded guilty to the crime and been sentenced.

George Jerome Holland Jr., 19, pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree assault and was sentenced to a year behind bars.

Thierry Leon Cross Jr., 18, pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree assault and drive-by shooting and was sentenced to spend two years and four months in prison.

Police responded Aug. 16 to the shooting in the 6500 block of 94th Street Southwest.

Officers found several bullet casings in the area, a parked car that had been shot four times and the concrete wall of an apartment that had been hit once.

A woman told police Cross had been harassing her, partly because she was friends with a police officer’s daughter.

She said Holland and Cross walked up to her apartment, fired handguns in her direction and left.

She showed officers text messages in which Cross threatened in the months before to shoot her home or kill her.

Both men have said they are gang members, according to police.

Cross called a detective later, to say he’d been in Seattle all day at Hemp Fest, and asked what evidence police had connecting him to the shooting.

The detective told Cross to turn himself in, and Cross hung up.

Police arrested Cross and Holland in the following months.

This story was originally published March 7, 2016 at 5:09 PM with the headline "Teens sentenced for shooting up Lakewood home."