By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The Centralia woman shot yesterday in what police are calling a gang-related dispute at an apartment complex is listed in serious condition this morning and the man accused of firing the gun is expected to go before a judge this afternoon.
Edison Terrace Apartments
Ulises Carrillo-Cruz, 20, confessed to shooting the woman, but police were told he wasn’t targeting her, according to the Centralia Police Department.
“There’s a claim he fired to scare them off, and rounds were fired into the ground,” police Sgt. Kurt Reichert said this morning.
Carrillo-Cruz, also of Centralia, was arrested yesterday at the apartments for first-degree assault and felon in possession of a firearm, according to police.
According to police, a group of at least four people – including 28-year-old Genevieve Purser who was shot – showed up at the complex on the 400 block of North Ash Street in Centralia.
“The short version is one group went to the other group’s apartment to raise hell,” Reichert said.
Officers were called just after 1:15 p.m. by the manager who heard two gun shots and then saw two males standing nearby at the corner of Ash Street and Park Way screaming and cussing toward one of the apartments.
Carrillo-Cruz and his brother Rolondo Carrillo-Cruz, 25, reside at the apartment with a young woman, according to the apartment managers.
Purser was taken to the Providence Centralia Hospital by friends, according to police. She had a gunshot wound to her shoulder, according to police which they described as non-life threatening.
Purser was then transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Centralia police reported they found a firearm yesterday hidden in some bushes near the scene. Police have not said how many shots were fired, only that it occurred in a “common area”.
Three other males were also arrested yesterday at the complex, called the Edison Terrace Apartments.
Rolondo Carrillo-Cruz was arrested and booked also for first-degree assault and felon in possession of a firearm, according to police. It’s not clear what his role was.
Francisco J. Robles, 18, and Javier E. Martinez, 18, were arrested and booked for rendering criminal assistance; they are suspected of hiding evidence, according to Reichert.
Reichert said it was the same general group of people who showed up at the apartments earlier this month and took baseball bats to the windows of that apartment unit and a Kia car.
All four men are scheduled to go before a judge in Lewis County Superior Court at 4 p.m. today.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
NONE OF YOU KNOW THA STORY SO F**K OFF IF YOU DNT KNOW SHIT DNT TLK
“sum person”, put the pipe down and slowly back away from it.
OK PPLE THEY AINT NO GANG BANGERS I KNW THESE GUYZ 7 DEY DID , IT 2 PROTECT DEM SELF , ER BEKZ THEY WERE TRYING 2 PROTECT THEMSELF , I WOULD DO DA SAME FOR SELF DEFINSE , SO PFFFT I SO AGREE WIT YU , MABE DA ODER ONES DNT BUT I DO
Hey “pffft”? You can call it anything you want, but that doesn’t change the fact that they are in a gang. Heck, you can call it “4 innocent little boys wearing shiny pink tutu’s and prancing around like fairies”, but it’s still a gang. Remember, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and swims like a duck, it sure as heck isn’t a giraffe.
The 4 in that picture are absolutly gang bangers and in fact have been arrested or questioned for gang activity SEVERAL TIMES! For SEVERAL years! GET REAL!
********SORRY, the 4 arent in this picture, but you guys know which 4 i am referring too..
george- THESE FOUR SITTING IN THIS PICTURE ARE NOT IN A GANG!!! THEY WERE DEFENDING THEMSELVES!! THIS LVL GANG THAT WAS AFTER THEM, DONT CARE ABOUT NOBODY!! THEY DONT CARE IF THEY GOT A FAMILY OR NOT, IF YOU SAY ONE BAD THING TO ANY OF THEM THEY WILL KILL YOU, JUST CUZ THEY WANT TOO. SO IF I KNEW THEY WERE AFTER ME FOR SOMETHING STUPID!!!, I WOULD BE HAVING SOMETHING MORE TOO DEFEND MYSELF TOO!!!
HELLO!!!- ya lock up everyone, yet wheres the “lvl” members at that were a part in this? FREEEEEEEE!!!!! these four in this picture dont go around causing trouble for no reason, they were simply defending themselves against people who do whatever they want AND ALWAY GET AWAY WITH IT!!!!!
Sorry Pffft but these guys terrosize this community too and also Rolando has had his fair share of run ins with the law and gotten away with it or gotten a mere slap on the wrist!! Lock up ALL gang members!! And innocent I say Pfft to that!!! U reep what u sew and if they didn’t want to have issues with rivals gangs they should have not been involved with gangs either I know some of these individuals on both sides from growing up in Centralia but do not have issues with Gang members b/c I do not affiliate with them or join in with them!!LOCK UP EVERYONE ON BOTH SIDES AND KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE!!!
“pffft”, did anyone force these people into joining a gang? Nope. Did anyone pressure them into carrying weapons? Nope. Put the responsibility for their actions where it belongs: on THEM. They are the ones who broke laws, so let THEM pay the price for that.
these boys are innocent. its all self defense. its the “lvl” gang everyonr shoukd be worried about, going around like they own this town. and always gettin away with everything!!
Email the prosecutor and let him know! It’s the only way…
lock the bastard up before he actually kills someone.. put him ion a pink room, with pink chairs … if he has a dang history.. why is he still out.. obviously he dont care.. what is society or the courts going to tell the parents of the next victim when things go horridly wrong and someone gets killed.. “gee, we should have stopped him” a dog that ranascks and terrorizes dont get THAT many chances!!! argh!
So, needless to say, retaliation is inevitable…keep your heads down folks. Especially if you live in that apartment complex.
its the same group that did the same thing at the chehalis ave. apps. last year the rolondo guy is the one that had the drive by on williams st in chehalis not to long ago