Posted on 02/02/2016 9:29:48 PM PST by windcliff
Three teenagers who were arrested Monday in the shooting deaths of two people at a Seattle homeless encampment called the Jungle are homeless brothers who live in another camp under an overpass.
On Tuesday, a King County Juvenile Court judge ordered that the three, ages 13, 16 and 17, remain in custody while prosecutors decide on charges against them.
The brothers were each being held on investigation of two counts of felony murder, three counts of first-degree assault and several firearms violations, the county prosecutor’s office said.
Jeannine L. Zapata, 45, and James Q. Tran, 33, were killed and three people were injured in the shooting on Jan. 26 at the Jungle, an encampment in a wooded area under Interstate 5 in the area of Beacon Hill. The police have said the shooting stemmed from a dispute over low-level drug dealing.
The brothers lived with their mother a few blocks from the Jungle in a homeless encampment under an Interstate overpass, according to a criminal information sheet released after their detention hearing. In an affidavit, Detective James L. Cooper of the Seattle Police wrote that the family was suspected of being involved in or associated with several suspected robberies, shootings and a murder in October.
Detective Cooper said the brothers had described how they carried out the shooting in a meeting with two people that was secretly set up and recorded by the police. The brothers sold the informants a .45-caliber handgun that had been used in the shooting, and the 13-year-old laughed as he described what he had seen and how the guns had sounded, the detective said.
The meeting was arranged by a person who had known the brothers and their family for years and said they lived in a tent with their mother.
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They have a roof over their heads now.
Three Squares a day!!!
The police have said the shooting stemmed from a dispute over low-level drug dealing.
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No! Can’t be! I know I’m shocked.
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