CLEVELAND — One week after a mass shooting left nine people injured in Cleveland's Warehouse District, Cleveland police have announced that a second suspect has been arrested after allegedly driving the getaway car.
On Saturday, investigators issued an arrest warrant for 24-year-old Kevin Raul Del Valle-Salaman. Del Valle-Salaman was taken into custody by Lorain police on Saturday and is currently being held at the Cuyahoga County Jail.
According to Cleveland Municipal Court, Del Valle-Salaman is facing nine counts of complicity charges.
According to the arrest warrant, Del Valle-Salaman was driving the 2023 black Kia Sportage that transported the primary offender Jaylon Jennings.
Jennings and Del Valle-Salaman, as well as another third unknown male, allegedly entered Rumor Bar and Lounge, before returning to the black Kia Sportage in a parking lot near West 4th Street, where Jennings got the firearm used in the shooting.
Del Valle-Salaman allegedly waited in a parking lot until Jennings returned and then fled the scene following the shooting.
An arraignment hearing for Del Valle-Salaman will take place on Monday at 8:30 a.m.
The mass shooting that injured nine individuals took place on West 6th Street near Johnson Court in downtown Cleveland at around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 9.
The nine victims were described as follows:
- 23-year-old man; shot in forearm
- 29-year-old man; shot in leg
- 26-year-old man; shot in wrist and lower body
- 24-year-old woman; shot in both feet
- 38-year-old man; shot in leg
- 23-year-old woman; shot in knee
- 27-year-old man; shot in both legs
- 26-year-old man; shot in leg
- 24-year-old man; shot in knee
Earlier this week, Cleveland officials announced Jennings of Lorain had been arrested in connection with the shooting. Jennings is currently being held on a $9 million bond.
Jennings is being charged with the following:
- Nine counts of attempted murder
- One count of discharge a firearm upon or over a public road or highway
- One count of CCW Permit - a handgun other than a dangerous ordnance
- One count of having weapons while under disability
