King County Prosecutors have filed first degree assault charges against a 16-year-old boy for allegedly shooting two men in South Seattle on April 20th. Prosecutors are asking that the teen be charged as an adult.

According to police records, the 16-year-old was involved in an altercation with three men who believed a car the 16-year-old was in contained a stolen stereo. After the three men threatened the driver of the car, the 16-year-old allegedly leaned out of a back window and fired five shots, striking one of the men in the hand and another in the buttocks.

Police staked out the neighborhood where the shooting occurred and arrested the 16-year-old the next day. Police records say when the teen—who told officers he is a member of the Union Street Black Gangster Disciples gang—heard he had shot one of the victims in the buttocks, he laughed.

Court records indicate that the teen was also involved in a burglary and standoff with police in Beacon Hill earlier this month which ended after the SWAT team was called out.

Jonah Spangenthal-Lee: Proving you wrong since 1983.

21 replies on “16-Year-Old Will Be Charged as Adult for Drive-By Shooting”

  6. Wait, how the f–k did the douche bags who killed Tuba Man get off with 72 weeks in Juvie? This kid didn’t kill anybody but he’s being tried as an adult. WTF?

  7. The kids did a plea deal -that is how they were able to get it knocked down to being tried as minors. The police had no other witnesses -besides the teens who beat up the Tuba Man.

    Even if this kid didn’t kill anyone -I am glad he is being tried as an adult. Hopefully as more kids who do this sort of thing are tried as adults, it might make an impression and stop some of the nonsense in the CD.

  8. “Shot him in the ass on the downstroke.” Pharcyde – Soul Flower

    Mid-90’s hip hop is to blame. That and Forrest Gump.

  9. I was all excited to comment, but both the Pharcyde and Tuba Man points were already made. You guys are quick tonight.

  10. Under state law, if someone is 16 or 17 when they commit certain crimes, the adult court has automatic jurisdiction. If they’re 15 when they commit the same crimes, the juvenile court must hold a hearing to determine whether the kid should be tried as a juvenile or as an adult. And in King County, the judges almost never *choose* to send a 15 year old to the adult court.

    So…the drive-by shooter is 16, and once charged the adult court has automatic jurisdiction. The Tuba Man kids were all 15 at the time of that incident, and the judge denied the request to try them as adults. If they had been 16, they would have been in the same boat as the drive-by shooter (and vice versa).

  13. we should go to a nigger shit parlour and show these freaks what a real old-fashioned nigger shit party is all about… I love putting nigger shit covered in gook splooge and faggot ass in my mouth all day long

  14. Another tricky little gun giving solace to the one
    That’ll never see the sun shine
    Another inch of your life sacrifice for your brother
    In the nick of time
    Another dirty money heaven-sent honey
    Turning on a dime

  20. @ 20,

    You believe a car contains a stolen radio, when you witness the radio being stolen from your car and carried over to another car and driven away. It is similar to the way the press uses the word “allegedly”.

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