OGDEN -- Police say a suspect who fired five or six shots at an Ogden home before fleeing on foot last month is a 16-year-old with gang associations.
The suspect, James Chavez Hernandez, was arrested Wednesday afternoon near Ben Lomond High School after school administrators noticed the teen was associating with students. Police suspected Hernandez was involved just days after the Oct. 27 shooting outside the home on the 2200 block of Jackson Avenue.
Hernandez has had prior cases in the juvenile system and police were given clearance by the county attorney's office to book him into jail as an adult following his arrest, said Police Lt. Scott Conley.
He was booked on five counts of attempted criminal homicide. Police say a group of people were gathered outside the home at the time of the shooting, but that nobody was injured.
The home was targeted twice in less than 24 hours. Two men were arrested for shooting at the home just a day before. Police say in that incident, a male resident of the home got into an argument with two men while at an Ogden convenience store with his three children.
The two suspects in that case, Richard Tehero, 29, and Marquise Lucero, 19, are believed to have followed the victim home. As soon as the victim pulled up to the home and told the children to go inside, Tehero and Lucero drove by and started shooting, police say.
One round hit the victim's vehicle, but there were no injuries and the two suspects were arrested just blocks away.
Police said both shootings are gang-related.
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