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TOPPENISH -- More details have emerged into the arrests of two suspects in a drive-by shooting Thursday morning that injured a 16-year-old on his way to school and led to several campus lockdowns.
Detectives said the two arrests at a Buena house just hours after the shooting also led to the seizure of a .22-caliber Ruger rifle as well as two high-powered pellet rifles, a stolen car and a small amount of methamphetamine.
Police identified an 18-year-old male as the suspected shooter in Thursday's incident. The other suspect, a 16-year-old male, was described as an accomplice.
The shooting happened at 7:45 a.m. in the 800 block of Monroe Avenue, across the street from Kirkwood Elementary School.
According to a police affidavit, the driver of a car on Monroe Avenue spotted three EAGLE High School students and fired two shots at them while yelling out an obscenity.
The driver then backed up and fired a third shot, which hit a 16-year-old in the back, police said. At the time the affidavit was written, detectives said the bullet was still lodged near the victim's aorta artery. An update on the teenager's condition was not available Friday.
Shortly after the shooting, detectives tracked the two suspects to the younger one's home in Buena.
The older suspect was lodged in the Yakima County jail pending a preliminary hearing later today. The younger suspect was in the juvenile detention center in Yakima on a possible charge of being an accomplice to attempted murder.
