Second teenager arrested for house party shooting that killed 2 in Pierce County

An 18-year-old antheral has been arrested for allegedly being the 2nd shooter successful a Pierce County wide shooting that near 2 dormant and 4 injured past month.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s SWAT Team and detectives arrested the antheral successful Des Moines astir 10 p.m. connected Thursday for the March 29 shooting that happened adjacent the 17800 artifact of 25th Avenue Court, according to the sheriff’s bureau connected X. He has been booked into the Pierce County Jail connected suspicion of first-degree assault.

The Sheriff’s Office posted connected X assemblage camera footage of the apprehension successful the 28700 artifact of Soundview Drive.

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A 17-year-old lad has been charged with 2 counts of first-degree execution and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm successful transportation to the shooting, tribunal records show. He is being held astatine Remann Hall connected a $1 cardinal bail.

Hector Gonzalez Valdez, 19, and Joaquin Ramirez, 15, were identified arsenic the individuals who were killed. They were attending a location enactment that had astir 40 to 50 radical successful attendance, according to charging documents.

Surveillance footage showed they were some talking to the 17-year-old extracurricular successful the mediate of the thoroughfare erstwhile they were abruptly shot, according to tribunal records. Ramirez died successful the street. Valdez was taken to a section infirmary wherever helium died.

The alleged motive was unclear successful charging documents, but The News Tribune spoke to a subsister of the shooting who said a combat occurred conscionable earlier successful the home. The partygoers were kicked retired arsenic a result, she said, and were lasting extracurricular the location erstwhile the shooting happened.

The incidental rocked a once-quiet Pierce County neighborhood, with neighbors saying that they wished idiosyncratic had sent the partygoers location sooner truthful the shooting could person been prevented, according to a erstwhile News Tribune report.