LA MESA (CNS) – Police Tuesday announced the arrest of a suspect in a non-injury shooting in La Mesa that left an occupied ground-floor apartment riddled with bullets.
Two adults and two children were inside the apartment but escaped injury in the shooting that occurred at 10:42 a.m. Monday in the 4200 block of Harbinson Avenue, according to La Mesa police.
La Mesa police detectives, with the assistance of officers from the San Diego Police Department, arrested Jaymes Brazelton, 29, of San Diego, about 11 p.m. and booked him into the county’s Central Jail on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and shooting into an inhabited dwelling, Sgt. Dan Herrin said.
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Police arrested a 29-year-old San Diego man on suspicion of shooting at an apartment in La Mesa on Monday.
The suspect was arrested in San Diego about 11 p.m. Monday, roughly 12 hours after the shooting on Harbinson Avenue, just north of University Avenue.
Police said bullets pierced a window of an apartment and a vehicle parked outside. Two adults and two children were inside, but no one was hurt, Sgt. Dan Herrin said.
Several 911 callers reported the gunfire about 10:40 a.m.
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After the shooting, witnesses saw “an unknown number of suspects” in a white Mercedes that drove off, Herrin said Monday. Police searched the area but didn’t immediately locate a suspect.