Shooting Suspect Nabbed At Restaurant
A teenager who reported being shot at last week spotted the suspected shooter early Saturday at a Spokane Valley fast food restaurant.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested David Duane Primm, 21, at the Taco Bell at Sprague and University. Primm, who gave 12707 E. Fourth as his address, was booked into the Spokane County Jail for first-degree reckless endangerment.
The 18-year-old victim told deputies a man in a tan-colored Ford Ranger pickup truck followed him for several blocks last Monday night.
When the victim stopped at 10th and Woodruff, a 5-foot-9, 165-pound white man walked to his car, hit it with his hand and pointed a pistol at him, said sheriff’s Lt. David Wiyrick.
As the teenager sped away, the man fired a shot at the car, which was full of people.
On Saturday, the victim noticed the suspect in his pickup waiting in the drive-through lane at the Taco Bell about 12:30 a.m.
He alerted an off-duty deputy working at the restaurant, and Primm was arrested, Wiyrick said.
Deputies also seized a loaded, semi-automatic handgun from the pickup, Wiyrick said.
Fire damages garage
A fire Friday afternoon in Greenacres did several thousand dollars damage to a garage.
Flames were jumping out the door of the garage when firefighters arrived at 3317 N. Donwood about 3 p.m. However, they managed to confine the fire to the 24-by-30-foot garage.
An adjacent lean-to and mobile home were not damaged. No one was injured.
Fire Marshall Paul Chase said it appears boxes stacked in the rafters of the garage either were pushed against a light or had damaged wires running along the roof.
Sheriff’s car damaged by fire
A small fire on the floor of a patrol car last Thursday evening chased a sheriff’s deputy from his cruiser.
Deputy Mike Kittilsvid was patrolling in the 15900 block of East Sprague about 6:30 p.m. when the fire started. Kittilsvid pulled the 1996 Crown Victoria cruiser off the street and used a fire extinguisher to put out the fire.
Kittilsvid was not injured. The fire, which caused about $500 damage, was out when firefighters arrived.
Cables that power the cruiser’s two-way radio and other auxiliary electrical equipment appear to have shorted out, sparking the fire, according to a Valley Fire report.
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