BG man charged in shooting at College Suites
Published 10:47 am Tuesday, April 12, 2016
A Bowling Green man was arrested Monday in connection with the March 1 shooting of Mario Lopez at College Suites Apartment.
Aron M. Strange, 21, of 1102 Beauty Ave., is charged with first-degree assault and first-degree wanton endangerment.
Lopez, 18, was shot multiple times in a breezeway at College Suites, 2426 Thoroughbred Drive. Lopez, Antwan Thomas, 19, and Samuel Mitchell, 20, had been visiting someone in Apartment 338 at the complex, according to March statements from Bowling Green Police Department spokesman Officer Ronnie Ward.
Thomas left the apartment to go outside and warm up the car. A few minutes later, Mitchell and Lopez left the apartment to meet Thomas and saw Thomas in a confrontation with another man while a second, unidentified man was standing nearby.
When Mitchell and Lopez saw the confrontation, they turned to go back to the apartment, where they were met by the second man. Words were exchanged, and Lopez was shot.
Strange was the second person arrested in this incident. On March 3, police arrested Dantoine Q. Steen, 24, of 701 Brownslock Road. He is charged with first-degree assault in this incident and is lodged in Warren County Regional Jail. He is also being held on an unrelated robbery charge, Ward said.
Police developed Strange as a suspect by taking witness statements, Ward said. Strange knew that police were looking for him and turned himself in at BGPD headquarters Monday.
Steen is being held in lieu of a combined bond of $125,000. Strange is being held in lieu of a $25,000 bond.
Police do not expect any other people to be charged in this incident, Ward said. Police declined to release a motive in the shooting and declined to say which man is the accused trigger man.
Lopez is continuing to recover from his gunshot wounds, Ward said.
Drug arrest — A Park City man is facing a felony drug charge after a traffic stop in Glasgow on Sunday.
A Glasgow Police Department officer saw a car driven by Christopher Arms, 27, traveling east on Columbia Avenue with a passenger who police knew to be wanted on an outstanding warrant.
When police pulled the car over, the officer wrote in an arrest citation that Arms kept moving his hands toward the floorboard after being asked several time to show his hands, according to the citation. An officer found a plastic bag with a white substance in it underneath of the driver’s seat. Police said they also found a small plastic bag of methamphetamine in his pants pocket.
Additionally, the passenger was found with syringes up her sleeve, which Arms claimed ownership of, according to the citation.
He was arrested and charged with first-degree possession of a controlled substance (meth), first offense, and possession of a drug paraphernalia, according to the citation.
Arms’ passenger, Alicia Chavarriya, 19, of Glasgow, was served with a Hart County warrant on charges of first-degree burglary, theft by unlawful taking from a building over $500 but less than $10,000 and theft by unlawful taking from a building under $500. Chavarriya was not charged with any crime related to the stop.