A second person has been formally charged with Class Y felonies in connection with a drive-by shooting in which a Rogers man was shot four times.
James Carranza, of Rogers, was charged Wednesday with accomplice to attempted capital murder and accomplice to unlawful discharge of a firearm from a vehicle in the first degree. Prosecutors filed attempted capital murder and first degree unlawful discharge of a firearm from a vehicle against Mario Torres-Rios in connection with the shooting.
Torres-Rios, 18, is the suspected shooter in the May 18 incident, according to court documents.
Jose Quiroz was shot four times in the upper torso and required surgery, according to court documents.
Rogers police received a report of gunshots in the area of North Third and West Persimmon streets at 12:14 a.m. May 18. Police later received a call from Mercy Northwest about a man who was at the hospital with gunshot wounds, according to court documents.
Brad Abercrombie, Rogers Police Department detective, interviewed Quiroz and witness Freddy Medina at the hospital, a probable cause affidavit Quiroz told Abercrombie that Torres-Rios and Carranza had been at Medina’s residence at 503 N. Third St. earlier that night and had threatened Medina.
Quiroz told police he was walking toward Carranza's car when someone stuck a gun out of the window and shot him, according to court documents.
Police later made a traffic stop on South Eighth Street in Rogers. Carranza was identified as the driver and registered owner of the vehicle. Police found a bullet shell casing jammed in the rear passenger’s side window seal of the vehicle, according to court documents.
Carranza later admitted he was present at the shooting, according to court documents. He told police he was driving the car when “Oso” — Torres-Rios — shot from the passenger’s side window, the aft davit states. Torres-Rios was taken into custody when a police officer saw him leaving his residence, according to court documents.
Police recovered a Glock .40-caliber pistol, according to court documents.
Torres-Rios and Carranza could be sentenced from 10 to 40 years or life imprisonment on each of the charges.