Add 2 more to the list: PAPD investigates Sunday aggravated assault and shooting
Published 12:17 am Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Port Arthur police are investigating two violent crimes that happened within an hour or each other Sunday evening.
The first of the two incidents — an aggravated robbery — happened around 8:30 p.m. in the 100 block of Gilham Circle at Barbara Jacket Park, where a 19-year-old Beaumont woman.
The assailants are also accused of holding a 16-year-old Beaumont male at gunpoint and demanding property from him, according to a press release from the Port Arthur Police Department.
After the robbery, the suspects fled on foot.
Det. Mike Hebert said officers identified a suspect and were in the process of locating him Monday at press time.
Other details about the robbery were not available.
The second violent crime — a shooting — took place around 9:40 p.m. Sunday at Cedar Ridge Apartments, 7603 Ninth Ave.
Police arrived on the call of shots fired and found an 18-year-old Port Arthur man shot in his lower extremities. He was brought by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Hospital for treatment for non-life threatening injuries.
Police did not have additional information on the crime as of Monday afternoon.