Parking dispute preceded mass shooting at Annapolis graduation party
A man who is accused of killing three people and wounding three others in an Annapolis shooting had just been arguing with a neighbor over street parking during a large graduation party before opening fire Sunday night, according to officials and charging documents filed in the case.
During that time, a City of Annapolis Parking Enforcement employee received a parking complaint that a car was parked blocking the driveway where Smith’s car was parked. Smith shot and killed Mario Mireles’s father, Nicholas, who came to his son’s aid, the charging documents said. According to witnesses, none of the victims had a firearm, police said in the charging documents. Ballistic evidence was collected from the outside and inside of a residence near the victims, including from near a window “that was shattered as if someone was firing from inside the residence.”According to charging documents, when officers arrived around 7:57 p.m.
At the news conference, Jackson said he could not confirm that the parking dispute was the motive of the shooting. When asked, Jackson said it is “too early to tell” whether the shooting may have been a hate crime, but police “have to look at every possible angle.” Smith is White, and Mireles, Mireles Ruiz and Segovia were Hispanic, Jackson said.“Something happened that caused the suspect, or now defendant, to use deadly force and to cause that kind of damage,” Jackson said.
Jackson said the FBI is assisting with processing the crime scene and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is processing ballistic evidence. “They were powerful enough to do a huge amount of damage on the front lawn of a home in a quiet neighborhood in a short amount of time,” Pittman said. “Weapons like this have no place in our neighborhoods.”Jackson said the crime scene will likely be held for another day and there are search warrants for “several residences in the area in the effort to obtain evidence.”
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