LUFKIN, Texas — UPDATE: The Lufkin Police Department has made two arrests following a shooting at Pinewood Park Apartments on Monday, Nov. 8.
Police have arrested 19-year-old Demetric Marshall and an unnamed juvenile as alleged shooters.
Witnesses reported seeing Marshall and the juvenile flee the scene in a blue Honda Accord after firing more than 20 rounds in the complex parking lot. The targeted person and their vehicle were not hit though two uninvolved, unoccupied vehicles suffered damage.
No injuries have been reported.
Around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, officers received a report of the suspect vehicle on Kurth Drive. Officers responded to the area but did not immediately find the vehicle. Officers then headed to the vehicle’s registered address on Airport Avenue.
The blue Honda passed officers on Airport Avenue with the suspects in the vehicle around 4:45 p.m. Marshall pulled into a driveway where he and the juvenile immediately fled on foot.
Officers pursued both suspects and took them into custody. Marshall and the juvenile were in possession of guns allegedly used in the Pinewood Park shooting. The juvenile suspect threw a 9mm as he ran from officers. Officers found an AR-15 pistol in a backpack dropped during the foot pursuit.
Marshall was taken to the Angelina County Jail where he remains on a $110,000 bond charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, evading arrest, and unlawful carry of a weapon. The juvenile was taken to the Juvenile Detention Center. Two other juveniles have been arrested in connection to the incident. One was released after detectives found the juvenile had no direct involvement, while the other was taken to the Juvenile Detention Center. The incident remains under investigation.
The apartments, located on Percy Simond Ave., is near Dunbar Primary but the school campus is not involved in the incident.
Casings were found in front of the buildings on Percy Simond Ave. Surveillance video revealed that there were two shooters. They were located and detained. Both suspects are juveniles.
They will be questioned and likely transported to the Juvenile Detention Center.
Dunbar Primary was immediately put on lockdown to ensure the safety of the students but the lockdown has since been called off. Normal after-school pick-up resumed once it was deemed safe to do so.
Lufkin ISD Police Department also responded to the shooting
This is a developing story.
