Teen charged in shooting
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
ASHEVILLE — Police arrested a 14-year-old boy Friday whom they identified as a gang member, charging him with shooting another child and two teenage girls.
Investigators said the boy is a member of the Shiloh neighborhood Black Out Mafia gang in South Asheville and that he shot at members of a rival gang, the Southside Squad.
The bullets missed the intended targets and inadvertently struck two 17-year-old girls and a 12-year-old boy. He has been in critical condition since the early Sunday morning shooting at a birthday party that grew to include about 150 people.
“It was all because of a gang fight, and someone who was part of his group, another person from Shiloh, was being assaulted and beaten,” Asheville police Capt. Tim Splain said. “Probably, he was using that gun toward the people who were assaulting his buddy from Shiloh.”