Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Second arrest made in Salem shooting
Salem police have made a second arrest in a shooting that injured one person Tuesday night.
Salem police were called to the 1700 block of Salem Commons Lane about 8:40 p.m. for a report of a possible shooting, said Lt. Mike Green.
When officers arrived, they found Milton Jermaine Jeffries, 26, of Roanoke with a gunshot wound to his right shoulder, Green said. Jeffries told police that he had pulled into the parking lot at Salem Commons apartments to visit his girlfriend when several people in a Ford Taurus accosted him. One person in the car fired several shots, hitting Jeffries once. The perpetrators fled in the car.
Jeffries was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released, Green said.
Salem police gave other police departments a description of the car, and at 9:46 p.m. Roanoke police saw it traveling west on Melrose Avenue at the intersection with 35th Street Northwest, said Roanoke police spokeswoman Aisha Johnson. The Taurus also matched the description of an earlier shooting in the city, Johnson said. In that shooting, shots were fired at a house in the 2000 block of Moorman Avenue Northwest. Two people were sitting on the porch but were not injured, Johnson said.
Roanoke police chased the fleeing car until it drove through a chain-link fence at the back of a house in the 1400 block of Abbott Street Northwest, Johnson said. The car then drove through a storage building in the 1400 block of Fresno Street, hit the rear corner of a house and struck a large tree. The driver and passenger fled on foot. The driver has not been located, but the passenger was caught by police and later turned over to Salem police, Johnson said.
Salem police arrested Darrin James Lester, 20, and charged him with malicious wounding.
On Wednesday, Salem police also arrested Demetrius Ronell Cooper, 18, of Roanoke and charged him with malicious wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, and shooting into an occupied dwelling, Green said. The latter charge was placed because one of the rounds fired in the parking lot of the apartment hit the building.
Salem police were called to the 1700 block of Salem Commons Lane about 8:40 p.m. for a report of a possible shooting, said Lt. Mike Green.
When officers arrived, they found Milton Jermaine Jeffries, 26, of Roanoke with a gunshot wound to his right shoulder, Green said. Jeffries told police that he had pulled into the parking lot at Salem Commons apartments to visit his girlfriend when several people in a Ford Taurus accosted him. One person in the car fired several shots, hitting Jeffries once. The perpetrators fled in the car.
Jeffries was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released, Green said.
Salem police gave other police departments a description of the car, and at 9:46 p.m. Roanoke police saw it traveling west on Melrose Avenue at the intersection with 35th Street Northwest, said Roanoke police spokeswoman Aisha Johnson. The Taurus also matched the description of an earlier shooting in the city, Johnson said. In that shooting, shots were fired at a house in the 2000 block of Moorman Avenue Northwest. Two people were sitting on the porch but were not injured, Johnson said.
Roanoke police chased the fleeing car until it drove through a chain-link fence at the back of a house in the 1400 block of Abbott Street Northwest, Johnson said. The car then drove through a storage building in the 1400 block of Fresno Street, hit the rear corner of a house and struck a large tree. The driver and passenger fled on foot. The driver has not been located, but the passenger was caught by police and later turned over to Salem police, Johnson said.
Salem police arrested Darrin James Lester, 20, and charged him with malicious wounding.
On Wednesday, Salem police also arrested Demetrius Ronell Cooper, 18, of Roanoke and charged him with malicious wounding, use of a firearm in commission of a felony, and shooting into an occupied dwelling, Green said. The latter charge was placed because one of the rounds fired in the parking lot of the apartment hit the building.
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