THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH THE MAKE AND MODEL OF THE VEHICLE THAT WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. – Two people have been arrested in connection with a Saturday night drive-by shooting that wounded a Clearlake man.
Jerry Lee King, 18, a student from Sacramento, and a 13-year-old male were taken into custody following the incident, police said.
A Sunday afternoon report from Sgt. Tim Hobbs of the Clearlake Police Department said that at about 10 p.m. Saturday officers were dispatched to a residence on Walnut Avenue on the report of a shooting.
Hobbs said that outside the residence officers found 32-year-old Marvin Turl, who was suffering from a single gunshot wound.
He said Lake County Fire Department medical personal who had been staged at the scene treated Turl – who had sustained life threatening injuries – before he subsequently was flown by helicopter to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
On Sunday afternoon Turl was said to be in stable condition, Hobbs said.
During the late-night investigation police discovered that King – accompanied by two male juveniles – allegedly drove a vehicle to Turl’s residence to confront Turl and his wife regarding an incident earlier in the day, Hobbs said.
Once at the Turls' residence, King is alleged to have fired a .380-caliber handgun at Marvin Turl several times, striking him once, according to Hobbs.
Hobbs said King and the two juveniles then allegedly fled in the vehicle, which radio reports had described as a white four-door car.
At 12:30 a.m. Sunday Clearlake Police officers, with the assistance of detectives who were called in to assist with the investigation, located King at an apartment in Clearlake, Hobbs said.
King was arrested for attempted murder, along with felony charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and discharging a firearm from a vehicle at a person, and misdemeanor charges of exhibiting a firearm and carrying a concealed weapon in a vehicle, according to jail records.
He was booked into the Lake County Jail shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday, with his bail set at $50,000. He remained in custody Sunday afternoon. Jail records indicated he's scheduled to be in court on Tuesday.
Hobbs said a 13-year-old male passenger in the vehicle at the time of the shooting was arrested for allegedly making criminal threats and conspiring to commit a felony.
The juvenile – whose name was not released because of his age – later was booked into the Lake County Juvenile Hall, Hobbs said.
Hobbs said police located both the vehicle – a white, four-door 1998 Dodge Intrepid – and the .380-caliber firearm that King allegedly used in the incident.
The Clearlake Police Department is asking anyone with information regarding this case to contact
Det. Alvarado or Det. Peterson at 707-994-8251.
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