Two 20-year-old Camp Pendleton Marines were arrested this weekend on suspicion of a short but far-reaching BB-gun shooting spree across four south Orange County cities, an Orange County sheriff’s spokesman said Tuesday.
Store and car windows were shot out during the spree, which ran late Saturday night to early Sunday morning, Orange County Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said. At least 31 victims were identified.
Amormino named the two Marines as Joseph Nahale of Fremont, and Jesse Ivie of Gresham, Ore. The two men were booked in jail on suspicion of shooting into a vehicle and felony vandalism.
He said officials turned the two men over to Marine base officials and plan to ask the Orange County District Attorney’s Office to file charges.
According to Amormino, at least one victim was a night-shift worker who was resting in her car in Dana Point just before midnight Saturday when she heard gunshots and saw glass flying inside her car.
He said the woman popped up to find her rear and passenger windows blown out and spotted a red Ford Explorer driving away, Amormino said.
A short time later in Laguna Beach, several cars and the storefront windows of seven businesses along Coast Highway were shot out.
One person in Newport Beach and three more in San Clemente also reported destroyed windows and damage.
“We believe all of this happened in a very short time frame,” Amormino said.
Not long after the reports of damage started rolling in, a patrol deputy spotted a red Ford Explorer with two Marines inside, the spokesman said.
A search of the sport-utility vehicle turned up two high-powered BB guns, which the two Marines said they had bought hours earlier at a Walmart, Amormino said.
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