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Teen dies weeks after Clovis house party shooting
Suspects face additional murder charge in incident that killed two, injured five
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Two young men charged in a house party shooting are facing another count of murder after a second person died from her injuries Friday.
In all, seven people were struck by bullets when gunfire erupted March 22 outside a home on West Grand, according to Clovis police.
Lyrasha Haskins, 21, died at the scene, and 17-year-old Massaeh Wesley, who was shot in the head, died at a Lubbock hospital Friday.
The Clovis Police Department said in a news release that Kaleb Moreno-Ponce, 19, and Enrique Padilla, 18, would face a second count of murder following Wesley鈥檚 death. The pair are behind bars at the Curry County Detention Center, each charged with an open count of murder and a slew of other felonies.
Clovis police responded March 22 to a report of a shooting in the 600 block of West Grand and found seven people shot, including Haskins and Wesley, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in Magistrate Court. Officers found nearly two dozen bullet casings outside the home and identified the suspect vehicle as a blue Chevy Equinox.
Police said detectives traced the vehicle from its original owner to Moreno-Ponce, who bought it in September. Detectives learned the vehicle had been sold two days after the shooting to Ed鈥檚 Recycling.
Moreno-Ponce鈥檚 girlfriend told police he called her crying and said Padilla shot at the house party, related to a 鈥渂eef鈥� he had with two men, one of them Wesley鈥檚 brother, the affidavit states. On Monday, a man came to the police department and told detectives he had been in the car with Padilla and Moreno-Ponce.
The man told police they stopped at a McDonald鈥檚 and went to the neighborhood where the house party was happening before Padilla got out and shot at the house, according to the affidavit. He said on the ride home Moreno-Ponce and Padilla 鈥渨ere threatening him not to say anything or they would shoot up his house.鈥�
Police said the man told them 鈥渉e has four kids at home and did not want to risk their safety, so he stayed quiet.鈥� The same day, Moreno-Ponce turned himself in to police but 鈥渄eclined to provide a statement without an attorney present.鈥�
Moreno-Ponce鈥檚 attorney could not be reached Friday.
