Deputies from the Riverside County Sheriff's Department recently arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly firing a 9mm round into a vehicle where his friend's missing phone was located.
As a result of an investigation, Malik Davis has been charged with shooting at an inhabited vehicle and was booked into the Cois Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta, according to a news release from the Sheriff's Department.
After tracking down the phone his friend left in a convenience store, Davis "approached the victim’s vehicle and fired one 9mm round...striking the victim in the left forearm," Sgt. Dave Tinker said in the release.
According to the news release, on May 31, Davis and his friend had gone into a convenience store where his friend ended up leaving their phone on the store counter. When the pair went back for it, they learned the store clerk had mistakenly given the phone to someone else thinking they were the rightful owner.
Sgt. Tinker said the passenger tracked down the cell phone to a car parked with two people sitting inside around the area of Case and Ethanac roads. it was there that Davis fired a shot into the vehicle hitting the victim in the left forearm before fleeing the scene, according to Tinker.
At almost midnight, the occupants of the fired-at vehicle flagged down a Perris Sheriff’s Station deputy and reported that one of them had been shot in the arm by a man in a tan Ford Fusion near the 3000 block of Case Road, the news release said.
Following a search of the area, deputies located Davis driving a tan Ford Fusion near Redlands Avenue and Seventh Street in Perris and detained the occupants until Perris Station detectives arrived on scene, according to the release. Upon processing the scene, authorities found an expended 9mm casing.
In his report, Sgt. Tinker said the investigation is ongoing. The names of all other parties involved have not been provided nor any additional information on the victim.