Dogged investigative work led to the arrest of a 20-year-old Boise man in connection with an early Sunday morning shooting spree in Kuna that damaged three homes and a car.
Kaleb G. Hill is charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault.
Hill is charged with shooting at two people as they drove away from an argument outside a party in the Deer Flat/Linder roads neighborhood just after 1 a.m. Sunday. At least three homes in the neighborhood were also hit by bullets.
The people in the car appear to have escaped serious injury, and no one in the three homes were hit by the stray bullets.
Hill is the second person charged in connection with the case.
Investigators determined two different guns were fired at the car and hit nearby homes.
The first one was recovered when Kuna Police arrested 18-year-old Victor Muro at the end of a brief car pursuit shortly after the shooting early Sunday morning. That handgun was reported stolen out of Boise.
Ada County Sheriff’s detectives found the second gun at Hill’s Boise-area home while serving a search warrant Wednesday night.
The incident began just after 1:10 a.m. Sunday when Kuna Police were sent to reports of a shooting in the Linder/Deer Flat roads area.
When police arrived, they found two people in a car on the side of the road with the driver’s side window shattered and damage to the door. The driver had visible injuries from being hit by shattered glass.
The driver told police he and his passenger were just at a party at N. Caterpillar Avenue in Kuna and were trying to leave when the car they were in was surrounded by several men who threatened them.
The driver said he was driving away when someone fired several shots, hitting and breaking his driver’s side window and windshield.
He kept driving and called 911, telling them he was being followed by someone driving a white Audi passenger car. The driver said he heard at last two more shots before he saw the Audi turn the other way.
A Kuna Police officer responding to the call saw an Audi matching the description of the car in the shooting and attempted to pull it over.
The driver, later identified as Muro, began speeding away, going in excess of 100 mph and turning off his headlights, before he lost control trying to turn east on Hubbard Road at the Ten Mile Road intersection and crashed.
Kuna police recovered a handgun from the car. They interviewed Muro and eventually charged him with felony eluding in connection with the pursuit and grand theft for possessing the stolen handgun.
While that was happening, detectives talked to people and collected evidence at the party that another person, who was driving a silver Nissan 350 Z, also fired at the car.
They were able to use that info to identify Hill as the second shooter and get a search warrant to search his Boise-are apartment Wednesday, where they found the handgun hidden in a heating vent.
The caliber of the handguns match the same kind of ammunition casings collected from the neighborhood.
Hill is being held in the Ada County Jail and is set to make his first court appearance Thursday afternoon.
Muro was released from jail Monday after posting $50,000 bail. He is set for a preliminary hearing later this month.
The case is still under investigation and other criminal charges are expected.