Man accused of shooting 14-year-old in the head charged with 6 counts of attempted murder
A parolee who allegedly shot a 14-year-girl in the head while the victim was riding in a vehicle with four other children in Indio was charged today with six counts of attempted murder.
Vicente Manuel Reyes, 22, of Thousand Palms is accused in the 10 p.m. Sunday shooting, which left the victim hospitalized. She was said to be in stable condition, but no details about her condition were released and her name was withheld.
Reyes allegedly fired on the vehicle as it traveled near John Nobles
Avenue and Monroe Street, striking the girl but missing the car’s adult driver and four other occupants — 15-, 13- and 5-year-old girls and a 15-year-old boy. A motive for the shooting was not disclosed, but the Indio Police Department characterized it as a “senseless act of violence.”
Reyes was taken into custody on Wednesday near Edom Hill and Varner roads in Cathedral City, according to county jail records.
Court records show that in 2012, Reyes and two other juvenile defendants were charged in the stabbing of a boy in the parking lot of an Indio movie theater. Reyes was charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, and pleaded guilty to the assault count in 2013. He was sentenced to five years in prison, and was released on parole in the summer of 2017, according to a parole violation report, which outlines a February gun possession arrest in Indio that landed Reyes in county jail earlier this year.
Minutes from his parole revocation hearing stated that he was slated to be released from county jail in April, though it’s unknown exactly when he was back out of custody.
Reyes, who’s being held on $2.16 million bail, pleaded not guilty to all counts Friday afternoon and is next due in court June 6 for a felony settlement conference.
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