Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) - A 19-year-old from Buffalo has been charged after a double shooting that sent a child and an adult to the hospital.
U.S. Marshals arrested Markus Wright Wednesday. Wright is charged with multiple felonies including 2nd degree assault and 3rd degree criminal possession of a weapon. Wright was on parole at the time of the shooting, according to Buffalo Police.
Wright is also charged with 2nd degree reckless endangerment and 15 counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
It was Tuesday night, around 10:15 p.m., when Wright was involved in a domestic dispute in a second-floor apartment on Hager Street. Buffalo Police say the dispute eventually led to a scuffle over a gun.
During the fight, the gun went off, going through the apartment floor and striking a child in the first-floor apartment in the shoulder. There were nine children in the first-floor apartment and six children in the second-floor apartment at the time of the shooting.
The child was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Children's Hospital. An adult involved in the second-floor fight was grazed in the foot by the bullet. He was treated at ECMC for non-life-threatening injuries.
