Kuna police arrest 18-year-old following shooting and brief pursuit; 2 people injured
Update on Dec. 8: A 20-year-old man has also been arrested in connection to the shooting. He has been arrested on suspicion of two felony aggravated assault counts.
An 18-year-old Nampa man was arrested on suspicion of two felonies after an early morning “shooting spree” and a “brief car pursuit” southwest of Boise in Kuna.
Officers from the Kuna Police Department responded to the area of Linder Avenue and Deer Flat Road at around 1:10 a.m. after they received reports of a shooting, according to a news release from the Ada County Sheriff’s Office. The man was arrested on suspicion of felony eluding and grand theft charges Sunday, according to the news release.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and “more charges are expected.”
Following an argument outside a party on North Caterpillar Avenue, which is less than half-a-mile from where police responded, two people in a car were shot at and three homes in the neighborhood were hit by bullets, police said. No one in any of the three homes was hit by any bullets.
The driver of the vehicle was visibly injured from shattered glass, police said, after bullets shattered the driver’s side window and damaged the door.
The driver and the passenger were leaving the party in Kuna when the car they were in was “surrounded by several men who threatened them,” police said. The driver told police that someone fired several shots, hitting and breaking his window and the windshield. He said that he was being followed by a white Audi and that he heard two more shots before seeing the Audi turn away.
The driver and passenger were not “seriously injured,” police said.
A Kuna police officer who responded to the call saw the Audi and tried to pull it over, but the man began driving away as fast as 100 mph before he “lost control” and crashed near the intersection of Ten Mile and Hubbard roads, authorities said. A stolen handgun was found in the vehicle, according to police.
This story was originally published December 5, 2022 at 3:40 PM.
CORRECTION: This story has been corrected to reflect that the two people in the car were shot at.
