Man arrested after reported shooting, car fire

SPOKANE VALLEY — A local man has been charged with multiple crimes after deputies responded to a report of shots fired March 24.

Jordan G. Flemming, 29, was booked into the Spokane County Jail, where he was held on charges of first-degree criminal impersonation, making false statements and on an unrelated warrant.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to East Fourth Avenue, east of Sullivan Road, for the reported gunshots and a vehicle fire. Upon arrival at about 5:10 a.m., they met drunken woman and her boyfriend, later identified as Flemming.

Flemming had initially given deputies a false name, records show.

The woman’s identity was withheld by the Sheriff’s Office even though it is public record under state law.

Deputies were unable to find any evidence of a shooting, so Flemming and his girlfriend were released, records show.

An hour later, deputies were called to an apartment complex in the 15700 block of East Fourth Avenue for a vehicle fire in a parking lot.

Records show deputies arrived to find a silver 2010 Chevrolet Impala fully engulfed in flames, records show. Deputies noted the Impala appeared to have been shot several times, and it was registered to woman contacted previously with Flemming.

Flemming and his girlfriend were located nearby, records show.

She said Flemming the couple had went to a bar downtown, met some people and then went to an apartment with them, records show.

The woman told deputies that she and Flemming walked to a nearby NomNom convenience store, where deputies had contacted them previously, records show. Then, they returned to the apartment complex.

The woman told deputies she started her Impala and started to drive away, but it caught fire, records show.

Witnesses, however, told deputies a different story, records show. And deputies collected several spent shell casings and bullet fragments near the vehicle.

Both Flemming and his girlfriend denied knowing about the shooting, records show. Flemming was arrested and the woman released.

 

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