Driver arrested 3 months after passengers shot man in face near busy Pasco intersection

A 21-year-old man is locked up on $100,000 bail for allegedly driving an SUV when passengers opened fire on another car.

The victim in the July 17 shooting in Pasco was struck in the face, with the bullet piercing his cheek but not hitting any bones.

More than three months later, Adrian Perez-Buenrostro was arrested for his alleged role in the gang-related attack.

Perez-Buenrostro is charged in Franklin County Superior Court with first-degree assault and drive-by shooting, both felonies.

He is scheduled to appear Nov. 9 to enter a plea to the two counts.

Court documents show that the victim, Treyreese D. Johnson, had been at a gas station at 26th Avenue and West Court Street when a Cadillac Escalade drove up next to him.

Johnson told Pasco police that the four occupants — all teens and young men — yelled a gang slogan at him. The Cadillac then drove off.

Johnson was on his way home when he was stopped for a traffic light at the intersection of Road 68 and Sandifur Parkway, in front of another gas station.

At that point, the Cadillac drove up next to Johnson’s vehicle and a rear passenger began yelling at him again, documents said.

Johnson was behind the Cadillac on Sandifur when the passengers shot at him through his windshield.

The victim immediately pulled over and called 911.

Police who responded to the 10:21 p.m. shooting got in-car dash camera footage from a vehicle that had been parked at the Maverik station on Road 68. The video reportedly showed Johnson’s car stopped at the light when the Cadillac pulled up next to it and stopped briefly before turning onto Sandifur.

Separate surveillance footage from the earlier gas station gave officers the license plate of the Cadillac so they could connect it to Perez-Buenrostro, court documents said.

The registered owner of the Cadillac told police that Perez-Buenrostro took the vehicle the morning of July 17 and did not come back with it.

Two days later, an officer checked a mobile home park where Perez-Buenrostro was known to hang out and found the Cadillac.

The SUV was towed and a later search turned up Perez-Buenrostro’s school ID card from a front cup holder, along with several unfired bullets on the floor, documents said.

This story was originally published November 2, 2021 at 12:56 PM.