A 15-year-old Casper boy who allegedly put five bullets into a north Casper neighborhood mobile home faces two felony charges in Natrona County District Court.
A preliminary hearing was waved Thursday for Marquis Hayman, who is charged with one count of aggravated assault, property destruction and defacement more than $1,000, both felonies, and reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor.
An arrest affidavit shows Casper police were called to the 1100 block of North Durbin Street at 2:40 a.m. Aug. 12 on a report of shots fired. When police arrived, a local resident told an officer her home had been hit four times with bullets.
The affidavit states that an investigation found three bullet holes in the glass of a window of a mobile home and two other bullet holes in a wooden panel with fragments penetrating into a bedroom where people were sleeping.
A resident of the home told police that when the shots began, he dropped to the floor and the bullets passed close to his head. He checked on another resident, and then looked outside and saw taillights leaving the area.
‘I Hope I Killed One’
In a subsequent investigation on Aug. 14, a 15-year-old resident of the trailer told police he and his 14-year-old ex-girlfriend had been on Snapchat talking “shit to each other” when Hayman allegedly showed a gun to the camera “and said they were going to shoot up my house.”
He told police 20 minutes later, the shot rang out.
During the initial police response to the shooting, police also received a call about loud music in the 3000 block of Provence Court.
A responding officer found several juveniles running from a car as the officer approached. In a conversation with the car’s owner, a 19-year-old Casper woman, the officer learned she had picked up Hayman and another youth and taken them to the North Durbin area, where Hayman shot at the house.
The driver also told police she brought a 16-year-old female along with Hayman and the the 18-year-old male to the home of a 14-year-old female on Provence Court to drink alcohol.
While at the house, the 14-year-old girl received a derogatory text from a 15-year-old ex-boyfriend at the North Durbin residence that included the words “kill yourself.”
The driver told police that Hayman and his 18-year-old companion claimed affiliations with the Sun Drive Gang and Hayman started “bragging about the gun and showing it off.”
She said she, along with the 16-year-old female, drove him and the 18-year-old male to a Durbin Street location where Hayman took his gun out, removed the magazine, cleared the chamber and re-inserted the magazine. She allegedly saw him and the 18-year-old walk toward the residence.
“(The driver) heard four-five gunshots and Hayman and (his companion) ran back to the vehicle,” the affidavit states. “Once back in the vehicle (Hayman) was heard saying something to the effect of, ‘Yo, we just popped this (expletive)’ and ‘I hope I killed one.’”
‘We Might Get A Felony, But Who Cares?’
In an interview with police, the 16-year-old female said she didn’t realize that Hayman was going to shoot at the home, and that afterward Hayman was bragging about shooting at the residence and possibly hitting the ex-boyfriend, who sent the text.
“We almost killed him, maybe we did, we might get a felony, but who cares?” she quoted Hayman to police.
She said Hayman and the 18-year-old male then began laughing.
In an interview with police, the 18-year-old male initially refused to answer any questions related to the shooting. He later agreed and told police he never saw Hayman do anything with the gun until they walked up the Durbin Street residence and saw him “pull out the gun and point it at the house and make a jumping motion while shooting.”
The 14-year-old girl who initially received the derogatory messages from her boyfriend at the North Durbin Street residence told police that her ex-boyfriend had threatened her. She said when the text came while Hayman was there, she handed him the phone and he answered it.
After the shooting, she told police she received a text from her ex-boyfriend stating, “you missed.”
The shooting investigation also uncovered a social media video and photos showing Hayman waving the weapon allegedly used during the shooting, with one showing Hayman and the 18-year-old “making gang signs with their hands before (Hayman) pulls out the gun in his lap and (waves) it at the camera.”
The aggravated assault and battery, property destruction and defacement charges carries penalties each of up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 fines. The reckless endangering charge carries a potential penalty of up to one year in jail.
Hayman’s bond has been set at $50,000 cash or surety.
The Hayman case follows teen violence earlier this year with the death of 14-year-old Bobby Maher in a stabbing at Casper’s mall on April 7. Two teens, Jarreth Plunkett, and Dominique Harris, both 15 at the time, are facing murder charges.
And on May 14, a then 15-year-old Eavan Castaner of Casper allegedly shot and killed his ex-girlfriend Lenae Brown, 17, with a 9 mm pistol. His case also is ongoing.
Dale Killingbeck can be reached at dale@cowboystatedaily.com.
