TEEN ACCUSED IN SHOOTING INCIDENT

By Ray King/OF THE COMMERCIAL STAFF

A Pine Bluff teenager will have to post a $10,000 bond to be released from the juvenile detention center while Jefferson County prosecutors consider felony charges against him.

At a court hearing Friday, Circuit Judge Rob Wyatt Jr. set the bond after ruling prosecutors had probable cause to charge Chris Scarver, 16, with aggravated assault and terroristic threatening following an incident Tuesday afternoon.

At the request of Deputy Prosecutor Cymber Gieringer, Wyatt also ordered Scarver, who Gieringer said would be charged as an adult, to have no contact with the victim of the incident.

Reading from an affidavit from police Sgt. Chuck Cash, Gieringer said officers were sent to the 3300 block of Daffodil Street at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, to investigate a report of shots being fired.

Gieringer said officers spoke to a juvenile male who reported that Scarver and several other teenagers had come to the house and told the boy they wanted to fight him, then left and returned a short time later.

Because of his age, the name of the victim was not released.

The boy told officers one of the teenagers fired three shots with a pistol, while Scarver fired several rounds from a shotgun before all the teenagers left.

Gieringer said police recovered three spent .40-caliber shell casings from the area, but were unable to find any shotgun shells and found no damage to the house.

The judge turned down Gieringer’s request to find probable cause to charge Scarver with committing a terroristic act at this point, since officers reported finding no damage to the residence, and no shell casings from the shotgun.

“The victim positively said Chris Scarver was with the other teenagers and I think you could find probable cause based on accomplice liability, even if they were bad shots,” said Gieringer in pleading her case.

Wyatt again turned down the request, but told Gieringer prosecutors could “continue to investigate the incident.”