Multiple vehicles hit by gunfire
Published 4:23 pm Monday, May 23, 2022
- (Special to the American Press)
Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s deputies working off-duty security detail at a bar on Common Street early Sunday morning heard multiple shots fired from a nearby parking lot at about 2 a.m.
Deputies proceeded to the parking lot where they observed a car exiting at a high rate of speed. Deputies later located a firearm and multiple shell casings on the ground from the gunfire. Five vehicles were struck from the gunfire.
A short time later deputies located the car near the intersection of McNeese and Kirkman streets, at which time a stop was conducted. Deputies made contact with the driver, Marcus D. Watley, 18, 1403 N. Prater Street, Lake Charles, and two passengers, Javin U. Green, 19, of Port Arthur, Texas, and Ali M. Vital, 19, 1617 Clover Drive, Lake Charles. Deputies also located a firearm in the backseat of the vehicle.
After further investigation Watley, Green, and Vital, were all arrested and booked into the Calcasieu Correctional Center and charged with five counts of aggravated criminal damage to property. Judge Derrick Kee set each of their bonds at $45,000.
The investigation is ongoing and more arrests and charges are possible. If anyone has any information about this incident they are asked to call 491-3605.
