No apparent targets in north county drive-by shooting

EVERETT — The drive-by shooting wasn’t a case of gang violence, road rage or bad blood.

In some ways, it defied stereotypes.

A Marysville man was in the passenger seat of a vehicle being driven by his aunt Friday. That’s when he lowered the window and allegedly fired multiple rounds in north Marysville and south Arlington neighborhoods.

The suspect, 19, was arrested for investigation of felony drive-by shooting and misdemeanor marijuana possession and was booked into the Snohomish County Jail.

Several people called 911 early Friday morning after hearing shots fired in Marysville’s 5400 block of 140th Place NE. Shots in the 18500 block of Smokey Point Boulevard also were reported close to the same time frame.

One of the 911 callers in Marysville had video of the shooting, captured by his home security system. It showed a white SUV on 140th Place NE with its headlights turned off. Police counted five shots fired based on the number of flashes observed coming from the vehicle.

“The flashes did not appear to be straight in the air, but more of an angle close to 45 degrees from the side of the car,” police wrote in a report.

Police recovered four shell casing in front of a home in the 5400 block of 140th Place NE and another shell casing in the driveway of the home.

Video from the security system also provided a license plate that led police to a home about a mile away.

Police talked with a woman connected to the car through vehicle registration. She told an officer that she’d been driving when her nephew fired several rounds from a black rifle out the window in a residential neighborhood.

Police then tracked down her nephew who allegedly admitted to shooting outside of the vehicle two separate times.

The suspect “admitted that he wasn’t aware of the law that stated he could not discharge a firearm from a moving vehicle,” police wrote. “(He) admitted he had screwed up and apologized for his actions.”

Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com