Boy Facing Assault Charges in Car Shooting

A boy was facing a possible assault with a deadly weapon charge this weekend for allegedly shooting at a motorist in San Jacinto, Riverside County sheriff's officials said.

The victim said he was having car trouble and pulled over in the 600 block of Idyllwild Avenue just after 2 a.m. Friday. As he tried to restart his car, several males came out of a house and confronted him, according to a sheriff's department release.

One of the males slammed the man's car with a baseball bat, prompting him to drive away, and as he proceeded down the street another of the suspects fired several rounds from a handgun, striking the car's driver's side door, the release stated.

Sheriff's investigators arrested the boy, whose name was withheld, and Jesus Almanza of San Jacinto for an unspecified parole violations, according to sheriff's officials.