Marine shot in Desert Hot Springs in 2012 dies

A Twentynine Palms Marine who was shot in Desert Hot Springs in 2012 has died.

Craig Maddy died on February 8, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office in Washington State. He died from “multiple complications of traumatic brain injury due to a gunshot wound to the head”. He was 27.

Maddy was shot in an apparent drive-by shooting during a chase from Palm Springs to Desert Hot Springs between 1:30 a.m and 2:15 a.m. on the morning of December 6, 2012 on Indian Canyon Drive north of 20th Avenue.

Maddy had returned from a tour in Afghanistan weeks before the shooting. The suspects were never caught.

“A Marine coming back from Afghanistan and living through that and then having to come here and have this happen to them where they were just trying to get back to the Marine base, it is frustrating,” said Deputy Chief Henson to News Channel 3 in in 2012.

Henson told News Channel 3 Wednesday that, due to a California homicide statute, if suspects were taken into custody now, that they would not be charged with homicide because “the statute allows for the charge to be upgraded up to three years and one day after the initial incident.”

“It’s awful, it’s awful because here is what I keep thinking that there is somebody out there who is actually bragging about what they’ve done,” Vandi Arnold, Craig’s mother, told News Channel 3 in 2012. “He was going to be an addition to the world.”