15-year-old car prowl suspect arrested after Tri-Cities man was shot at
A 15-year-old was is one of the several suspects accused of shooting a man while prowling cars last week.
Kennewick detectives and regional SWAT team members arrested searched a home on the 2900 block of West Seventh Avenue at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, police said in a Facebook post.
They found both the 15-year-old suspect and a handgun in the house.
The teen was booked into the Benton-Franklin Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of first-degree assault.
Detectives linked the teen to the car prowling that happened at 1 a.m. on Aug. 6. on the 400 block of South Rainier Street.
A resident spotted four people searching a vehicle in the neighborhood and confronted them.
According to reports, two of the prowlers fired eight times at the man before running away.
The man was not hit.