PONTIAC, Mich. (WWJ) – The alleged getaway driver in a shooting that left a 7-year-old Pontiac girl dead has turned himself in to police.
JaJuan Calvin McDonald, just 17 years old, is the third member of a street gang known as “4-Block” to be charged in the case.
McDonald walked into the Waterford Township Police Department on Monday afternoon and turned himself in. He was taken to the Oakland County Jail and is expected to be arraigned on 10 felony charges Tuesday Morning in Pontiac’s 50th District Court.
McDonald, and 19-year-old Justin Jayshon Rouser, both from Pontiac, are each charged with first-degree murder, four counts of assault with intent to murder and five counts of possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony.
Rouser is accused of firing eight shots in the shooting that killed 7-year-old Ariah Jackson on March 18. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office says there is no known connection between Rouser and the victim or her family.
The sheriff’s office says Jackson’s mother was waiting to pick up her two kids and two nieces at a school bus stop near Paddock and Wilson around 5 p.m. on March 18 when she notice an orange SUV drive pat her with two males inside.
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She picked up her kids, and as she was pulling into her driveway, she saw an orange vehicle approaching.
That’s when multiple shots rang out.
Police officials say the passenger in the SUV, dressed in all black and later identified as Rouser, hung out the window and fired eight shots. Ariah was struck in the back of the head by a bullet. Her father brought her inside the home shortly before deputies arrived.
Deputies took her to the hospital in a patrol car. She died a short time later.
Her mother, 30, was grazed in the head. She was taken to the hospital, but refused treatment, officials said.
Three other girls, ages 6, 7, and 11, were in the car at the time of the shooting and were not injured.
Authorities have not announced a motive in the shooting.
Sheriff’s detectives and ATF agents arrested Rouser on Wednesday and is being held without bond.
He was wearing a ski mask, presumably to conceal his identity, in the front seat of a vehicle that was driven by 21-year-old Daejion Markese Bryant, of Troy.
Bryant was also arrested Wednesday. He’s also a member of the 4-Block gang and had been questioned earlier in the investigation, the sheriff’s office said.
Bryant is charged with lying to a peace officer during a violent crime investigation – a four-year felony and is being held on $100,000 cash bond.
He had been on bond for the delivery/manufacture of a controlled substance and resisting and obstructing a police officer.
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