Apparently the dude shot him over money, they got into it earlier in the day and old boy came back with a pistol
Coppell police say they have arrested 18-year-old Montay Kentrall Howard in connection with the shooting of former Coppell High School football player Charles West Sunday evening.
According to the affidavit provided by police Tuesday afternoon, the 18-year-old West, who has committed to play football for Brigham Young University, was playing basketball with some buddies Sunday around 6 p.m. along the 400 block of Mockingbird Lane when he saw Howard walking toward him. West told police he knew Howard. In fact, he later told officers, the two of them had fought earlier in the day — “over money,” according to the arrest warrant.
West saw Howard was carrying a gun. At that point, says the warrant, “he began to run.” According to police, and the video that began making the rounds Sunday, Howard then opened fire and hit West one time, in his left bicep. West was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was treated and released.
West’s lawyer, Hunt Bonneau, told
The Dallas Morning News Sunday that West was an innocent bystander.
“It was broad daylight,” he said. “It wasn’t like he was doing something he wasn’t supposed to be doing. It’s just kind of a really scary event that he’d been very lucky to get through.”
Police say they still don’t know who shot the video, but they confirm its authenticity: “A cell phone video from the scene shows the shooting as it occurred.”
Howard was
arrested “without incident” around 1:30 Monday afternoon at his Coppell home. His name was withheld until West could be shown a photo line-up; he has since ID’d Howard as the shooter, according to police. Howard is now in the Carrollton jail, charged with Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, a second-degree felony.