![]() Monday, shortly before classes were scheduled to dismiss for the day, police spokesman, Sgt. ![]() On the day of the shooting, calls started pouring in around 2:50 p.m. Investigators recovered about 20 spent shell casings at the shooting site and found another 15 in the vehicles that police said were used in the shooting. The footage showed individuals that took part in the shooting, according to court documents. Surveillance footage also showed vehicles matching the description from the shooting site departing another site and then returning soon after the shooting. It showed a group of five teens gathered near a curb when three vehicles passed by and then returned, with people inside firing multiple shots at the group. Investigators seized six guns during those searches, police said.Īccording to court documents, neighborhood camera footage captured the shooting. Police said search warrants were conducted at five Des Moines homes and six vehicles in the hours after the shooting. "The school is where the suspects found their target." "While this incident occurred outside of a school, it could have occurred in any one of our neighborhoods," police said. Police said the 16-year-old girl remained hospitalized Tuesday in serious condition, while the 18-year-old remained hospitalized in critical condition. Police had not released the surviving victims' names by Tuesday afternoon. The other two shot are females, 16 and 18, who both attend East and were among a group standing with Lopez when they were inadvertently shot, police said. Lopez, who was not a student at the school, was the intended target of the drive-by shooting, police said. Police identified the 15-year-old killed as Jose David Lopez, of Des Moines. All are from Des Moines and the school district didn't identify any as attending East. Police named the suspects as Octavio Lopez, 17 Henry Valladares-Amaya, 17 Manuel Buezo, 16 Romero Perdomo, 16 Alex Perdomo, 15 and Nyang Chamdual, 14. ![]() Police said gunshots fired outside the school came from several shooters from multiple vehicles. The suspects are each charged with first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the Monday afternoon shooting on the grounds of East High School, near Des Moines' downtown, about a half-mile (0.8 kilometres) from the Capitol. Authorities arrested six teenagers accused of shooting into a group that had gathered outside an Iowa high school, killing a 15-year-old boy and seriously wounding two teenage girls, police said Tuesday.
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