Three injured in early morning shooting

SPOKANE VALLEY — Five people were arrested on various charges are believed to be connected with a March 8 shooting that left three people wounded on Bowdish Avenue.

At one location, three people were arrested about two hours after the shooting.

Angela R. Ayers, 43, was arrested on multiple extraditable warrants from Bonner county, Idaho, and for being a fugitive from justice, records show.

Zane M.R. Swartzenberger, 19, was arrested for carrying a firearm illegally.

A 17-year-old boy, whom deputies have yet to identify publicly, was arrested for second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of a controlled substance and possession of a dangerous weapon-brass knuckles.

At a second scene nearly 20 hours later, deputies arrested two more people.

Hannah R. Morris, 19, was arrested on a second-degree burglary warrant and for third-degree theft, records show. Chadd J. Benefield, 39, and arrested on a first-degree criminal trespass warrant.

Deputies responded to the March 8 shooting at about 12:35 a.m. after receiving a 911 call from a woman who overheard an argument and then gunshots in an apartment complex in the 4000 block of South Bowdish Avenue.

More 911 calls came in.

Deputies arriving on scene determined two men and a teenager went to meet two other adults in one of the appointments, records show. At some point, the meeting turned into an argument and then a shooting.

Only a couple hours later, at approximately 2:50 am, a deputy was called back to the 4000 block of South Bowdish Avenue for a reported suspicious vehicle.

Records show the deputy contacted four occupants of a red Audi in front of the church on East 40th Avenue, records show. The driver, whom deputies did not identify publicly, told the deputy she was traveling from Newport, Wash., to an address on Mayflower Road.

But the deputy knew Mayflower Road is near the Spokane Airport on the other side of Spokane, records show. He noted the passengers in the vehicle were getting fidgety.

The deputy ordered the occupants to keep their hands visible while awaiting backup, records show. But as they waited, one said his grandmother lived in Airway Heights, again referencing a South Mayflower Road address.

As deputies were arriving, 17-year-old was told multiple times to keep his hands in view, records show, noting deputies spotted a pistol grip sticking out from under a towel.

After confirming the boy had a misdemeanor warrant, he was arrested, records show. Deputies searching him found a glass tube with burnt resident inside his hoodie pocket.

He also was found to have illegal brass knuckles and a baggie containing methamphetamine in his pants pockets, records show. The boy also had a melted straw, a glass pipe, aluminum foil and box with capsules all containing resident believed to be methamphetamine.

Another occupant, Schwartzenberger, told deputies he didn’t have any weapons on him, but during a search, a loaded Glock 9mm was found in a pant pocket, records show. He was arrested for carrying a firearm unlawfully.

The third passenger, Ayers, was arrested on the Idaho warrants and the woman driving the car was released. Despite the driver being released, the vehicle was impounded and deputies obtained a search warrant for the vehicle.

The search turned up 27 amphetamine/dextroamphetamine pills, which are prescription-only controlled pharmaceuticals, records show. They also found an off-white crystalline substance in aluminum foil, a loaded Taurus .45 ACP, a black semi-auto Silver Eagle 12-gauge shotgun and 16 cyclobenzaprine hydrochloride (a prescription-only muscle relaxant) pills, along with several other items.

At 11 p.m. that night, deputies were called back to the area for a suspicous 2010 Jaguar in a parking lot.

Records show the caller told dispatchers the two people in the car were possibly connected to the shooting.

During this call, deputies contacted Morris and Benefield.

Morris and Benefield were arrested and booked into the Spokane County Jail for their warrants.

None of the five had been charged in connection with the shooting as of press time.