Arrest made in fatal Auburn shooting

A vehicle found abandoned in Tacoma with what appears to be blood on the driver’s side is believed to be the one used by a suspect or suspects who shot a teenage boy and his father at a bus stop in Auburn on Tuesday, police said.

Court records show the 19-year-old arrested in connection with Tuesday’s fatal drive-by shooting in Auburn is a well-known gang member who was sentenced to community service last week after he was arrested in August on suspicion of stealing a pickup.

David Mireles lost his cousin and uncle in the apparent drive-by shooting.

Tonight, he and a group of friends gathered at the scene of the shooting to honor both men.

Mireles said he is glad the suspect was caught, but the damage is done.

A group gathered near the intersection of B Street SE and 17th Street SE in Auburn with flowers, candles and a few cans and bottles of beer.

The victims were later identified by family members as Angel Mireles, 17, and his father Mark Rivera, 41.

Police say the gunman pulled up and fired shots at Angel Mireles first. “We have a male subject in custody who we believe is the shooter”.

Stocker added that police have also detained a woman they believe was with the suspect at the time of the incident.

He was also arrested in January after Auburn police, responding to a report of gunfire, found a loaded 9-mm pistol in a Honda, the records say. Mireles’ father, who has not been named, was critically injured and on life support Harborview Medical Center.

“I’m going to be a father soon”.

“We just don’t know at this point”, Stocker said.

The 13-year-old boy told police the gunman was driving a black Acura and pulled up alongside him and his relatives at a bus stop and engaged his older brother in conversation, the statement says. She was later arrested.

Sarah Epinoza, Angel’s Mireles’ cousin, said he was not in a gang; police aren’t sure yet if he was or wasn’t.