Drive-bys killed a young Tri-Cities father by accident, then paralyzed a man in retaliation
A 26-year-old Kennewick father appears to have been in the wrong place when he was shot and killed in a drive-by in Pasco.
A group of five intended to kill a 15-year-old with gang ties when they opened fire on Aug. 8 near Brown Street and 19th Avenue, according to court documents.
Instead, Robert Anthony Flores Segura III was shot and died.
The teen, Jesus Rivera-Magallon, exacted his revenge three weeks later, court documents show.
He allegedly was part of a group who tracked down one of the alleged shooters, Christian Uribe, 20, and gunned him down in retaliation near East Butte Street and South Owen Avenue. He was left him paralyzed from the chest down.
In all, four people are facing charges in connection with the pair of drive-by shootings.
Uribe was booked into the Franklin County jail last week about two months after he was charged with premeditated first-degree murder for killing Flores Segura. He is being held in lieu of $750,000 bail.
Rivera-Magallon is in the Benton-Franklin Juvenile Detention Center facing one count of attempted first-degree murder in connection with the drive-by that injured Uribe.
Prosecutors are asking to charge Rivera-Magallon as an adult, according to court documents.
Two of the other men in the car during the Aug. 26 shooting also are in the jail. Juan Zuniga, 20, is charged with attempted first-degree murder and bail is set at $750,000.
Miguel Garcia, 20, is charged with first-degree assault and drive-by shooting.
Young father killed
Flores Segura was walking Aug. 8 about 8:30 p.m. with four others along Brown Street toward 19th Avenue when a green sedan passed by.
Security cameras showed the car made a U-turn and approached the group a second time and opened fire, court documents show.
The green car with five people inside then fled the area.
One bullet struck Flores Segura on his left side, damaging his diaphragm, spleen, liver and his heart. He was rushed to Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland but later died.
While police believe the shooting was gang-related, it’s believed Rivera-Magallon was the intended target.
Police found two different calibers of shell casings at the scene — .380 and .40 caliber. And a witness identified two shooters, including Uribe, in the car.
Court records don’t show anyone else charged.
Police tracked the Toyota Avalon to a parking lot on the 200 block of Owen Avenue in Pasco. According to cellphone data, the alleged driver was in the area of 19th Avenue and Brown Street when the shots were fired.
The second shooting
Then, on Aug. 26, witnesses reported hearing three gunshots about 12:30 a.m. near East Butte Street and South Owen Avenue.
About the same time, dispatchers got a call from a man who had just been shot in the back.
When police arrived they found Uribe wounded on the sidewalk.
Uribe believed he heard Rivera-Magallon moments before the firing started, according to court documents.
The day later, an Instagram user named “Manos Lokote” sent two messages to Uribe’s younger brother that said, “Ask ur brother how it felt” and “we ain’t done yet either.”
Police tracked the Instagram account to Rivera-Magallon, who also is known as Manos.
Among the messages in Rivera-Magallon’s account, there were some from an account called “wordsofvile” in which someone bragged about being part of a hit and allegedly admitted to shooting Uribe, say court documents.
Detectives learned the account belongs to Zuniga. The messages said that he would have killed if the driver “Devious” hadn’t gotten nervous and sped away.
Police said Garcia’s street name is “Devious” and a search of Garcia’s cellphone location information put him at the scene of the shooting when it happened.