The Clark County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate an exchange of gunfire between two cars Sunday in the parking lot of the Hazel Dell Crossing shopping center.
In a Tuesday morning update, the sheriff’s office said deputies had located one of the cars involved in the shooting and had made an arrest.
Callers estimated between 10 and 12 shots were exchanged before the cars fled the area, according to the sheriff’s office.
Authorities received no reports that anyone was injured but at least one other car in the area reported that it had been hit by a bullet, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.
Deputies responded to the scene around 6:15 p.m. Sunday after multiple reports of a shooting at the shopping center on the 7900 block of Northeast Sixth Avenue in Hazel Dell, officials said. Hazel Dell is an unincorporated area in Clark County.
Witnesses told investigators a white Chrysler sedan had shot several times at an occupied dark-colored Volkswagen SUV before fleeing. Investigators later determined the Volkswagen SUV appeared to have shot at the Chrysler sedan as well, sheriff’s officials said.
Deputies found several spent shell casings in the parking lot. Later that day, the sheriff’s office said on Tuesday, deputies located the Volkswagen, found a rifle believed to have been used in the shooting, and arrested one person believed to have shot the rifle.
A victim later called 911 and told authorities that the person’s Range Rover had been hit by a bullet on the driver’s door. The owner of the Range Rover was leaving the parking lot at the time.
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