2 more Mobile teens charged in shooting of 6-year-old left in critical condition
A shooting which left a 6-year-old boy with multiple gunshot wounds last week was the result of an ongoing dispute between teens at the Mobile apartment complex, police chief Paul Prine said Monday.
Prine spoke during a press conference in which he announced the arrest of two more teens in connection with the shooting at Summer Place Apartments on Azalea Road last Tuesday.
The two suspects were both taken into custody last Friday.
Mobile police arrested 18-year-old Deante Jacquiz Jenkins, while police in Gautier, Miss., apprehended 19-year-old Jamayal Trevaughn Williams after they identified him through the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) data base.
Jenkins has joined 19-year-old Zaire Titnamus Hughes, who was arrested last Wednesday, in Mobile Metro Jail. Williams remains in the Jackson County (Miss.) Adult Detention Center awaiting extradition to Mobile.
Jenkins and Hughes are each charged with 1st-degree assault and shooting into an occupied dwelling. Jenkins is being held in lieu of $54,000 bond, while Hughes bond was set at $75,000.
Williams is facing the same charges once he is returned to Mobile.
Prine thanked both the Gulf Coast Regional Task Force and the community for assistance in tracking down the suspects.
“I believe the community is sick and tired of dealing with the same garbage over and over,” Prine said. “That’s why in less than a week you see we brought these individuals who otherwise we had no knowledge or clue as to their identity. We’ve been able to apprehend them.”
Prine also emphasized the investigation is not complete and additional arrests are possible, warning suspects that investigators “will not stop until you are behind bars.”
The child remains in critical condition, Prine said, and asked the community to pray for the child’s recovery.
“He needs prayer now more than he has ever needed,” the chief said.