Teen-Age Brothers Plead Innocent in Drive-By Shooting
Two teen-age brothers pleaded innocent Friday to charges they gunned down two 15-year-old students in a drive-by shooting as the victims were walking home from junior high school.
The brothers, ages 13 and 16, entered their pleas at a Juvenile Court arraignment to two counts each of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, all felonies.
The 13-year-old also denied a felony charge of shooting from a motor vehicle in the incident, which occurred Wednesday. The older suspect additionally denied a felony charge of permitting another person to shoot from a vehicle and a misdemeanor charge of permitting a loaded firearm in a vehicle.
The suspects remain in custody pending trial May 25. The 16-year-old faces a May 12 hearing at which his attorneys will try to have him freed from custody.
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