2 young men, 1 teen arrested in connection to 2 drive-by shootings in Logan neighborhood

Three teens were charged with first-degree assault and other charges in connection with two drive-by shootings near the same intersection Saturday morning in northeast Spokane.

Spokane police officers responded to the first shooting shortly before 5 a.m. and the second around 7:30 a.m. near the 2400 block of North Dakota Street, according to a Spokane police news release.

According to court documents, a Ring doorbell camera showed 18-year-old Joshua Gould leaving a North Wiscomb Street residence, a couple blocks from the shooting, around 4:40 a.m. and running back into the residence at about 4:50 a.m.

Police said in documents Gould entered the home with a firearm in his right hand, and the slide on the gun was locked back consistent with someone who had just emptied the magazine after shooting it.

A resident on East Carlisle Avenue told police he heard at least five gunshots go off in front of his house and vehicles speeding off during the first shooting. He saw a male teenager run from inside the Wiscomb Street home with things in his hands and get into a red vehicle that took off east on Carlisle . After the vehicle drove by, he heard about five more shots.

Police found multiple shell casings on Carlisle Avenue and a bullet hole in a North Dakota Street house.

In the second shooting, multiple rounds struck an occupied residence, and one person sustained injuries from flying debris caused by bullet impact, police said. The injuries were not life-threatening.

The person who was injured told police she was awoken by the sound of gunshots and pain on her right cheek. She believed she was shot in the face, but it was determined a bullet had entered the wall of her house and debris from the wall cut her cheek.

A witness told police he saw a newer red Hyundai Sonata, later identified as stolen, with two or three males in the car driving east on Carlisle toward Dakota. He said he saw the male in the front passenger seat shoot about 10 rounds from a black handgun toward the northeast corner of the intersection. The vehicle continued east and then south on Cincinnati Street.

Besides the Dakota Street home, a vehicle outside the residence was also damaged, documents say.

Officers were then dispatched to a car crash around 8 a.m. near East Francis Avenue and North Crestline Street. One of the vehicles involved was determined to be the suspect vehicle in the second shooting, the release said.

Police contacted three suspects: Gould, 19-year-old Ozzy Tarter and a 16-year-old boy. Officers recovered two firearms at the scene and determined the vehicle was stolen.

Gould was in the front passenger seat of the crashed vehicle and a black handgun was found in his sweatshirt, court records show. The Sonata matched the description of the vehicle involved in both shootings, police said in documents.

Each of the three suspects was charged with multiple counts of first-degree assault and drive-by shooting, according to police.

Gould also was charged with second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, and the 16-year-old was charged with first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a stolen motor vehicle because police said he was the driver of the stolen car.

Gould and Tarter are each set for an arraignment July 5. Both were in the Spokane County Jail Tuesday with Gould’s bond set at $600,000 and Tarter’s at $100,000.