Just before 9:30 pm, Monday, the October 16th, the Arcata Police Department received a report regarding a person who had reportedly shot in an area near downtown Arcata.
According to the Arcata Police Departments Wednesday press release, officers responded to the area and located an 18 year old Arcata man with a gunshot wound to the leg. The man reported he had been sitting in a vehicle along 27th Street, when a man approached the car on foot and fired multiple rounds into the vehicle, before fleeing.
Further investigation revealed the suspected shooter was know to the victim.
On Tuesday, October 17th, officers from the Fortuna Police Department located and arrested the suspected shooter, identified as 20 year old Richard Lawrence McCovey II, of Fortuna, at a business on Fortuna Blvd.
McCovey was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on multiple violations including, Attempted Murder.
