Louisville Police have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection to the Greenwood Boat Ramp double shooting that left one person dead and another hospitalized.
James Reece is charged with complicity to murder, assault, tampering with physical evidence and possession of a handgun by a convicted felon. He appeared in court on Friday for arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty. A judge set his bond at $1 million.
The shooting happened on Tuesday around 3 a.m. When police responded to the 8200 block of Greenwood Road at the Greenwood Boat Ramp, officers found Jayson Manookian shot. Manookian was taken to the University of Louisville Hospital and later died from his injuries.
Not long after, another man injured in the same shooting arrived at the hospital by private means. Police said the man is in critical condition.
An arrest citation said the suspect vehicle fled when detectives tried to perform a traffic stop later that day. When the car stopped, Reece and another suspect tried to run from detectives but were later arrested.
The citation said Reece admitted to police that there was an argument with a group on the lower parking lot while he was with the other suspect on the upper lot. Police said Reece, the man and two females got into the car and drove down to the lower lot where Reece said they confronted the victims over “verbal slurs” that were allegedly said.
Reece said the man he was with shot Manookian and the other victim out the back driver’s side window. When police interviewed the suspect, the arrest citation said he told police that Reece was the one who shot the victims from the driver’s seat.
Detectives went through cell phones belonging to Reece and the other suspect and found a conversation between the two talking about the shooting. In the conversation, Reece texted the man, “you hit dude with ski on.”
Reece told police the man he was with threw the gun out the window during the pursuit, but the suspect told police it was Reece who threw the gun.
Reece is currently being held at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections.
Source: WAVE
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