Prosecutors on Monday charged a 21-year-old Lincoln man with aiding and abetting attempted first-degree assault in connection with a drive-by shooting in the South Salt Creek neighborhood last month.
Shantrell A. Hickey, 1600 Folsom St., is suspected of driving the Chrysler Pacifica involved in the May 2 shooting near Second and C streets, according to police.
Officers went to the area just after 8 p.m. that day after receiving reports of five gunshots coming from a dark-colored van with tinted windows last seen driving south near Second and A streets, police said in an affidavit.
Police didn't find the van, but they did find four .38-caliber brass shell casings in the west entrance to the alley near Second Street from C to D streets, the affidavit said.
Contacted later, the male victim told investigators he was shot at while leaving his parents' house in the 200 block of D Street, the affidavit said.
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A voice yelling "that's him" was followed by several loud pops, he told investigators.
The victim said the van was carrying three males, and the shooter fired the gun from a passenger window on the driver's side.
Lincoln Police Investigator Steven Berry said in the affidavit that the victim identified Hickey as the driver in a photo lineup.
In interviews with police, Hickey denied involvement, but said he is the primary driver of his girlfriend's blue Chrysler Pacifica, according to the affidavit.
Already in jail on unrelated charges, Hickey was cited in connection with this shooting June 2.
Hickey appeared in Lancaster County Court Monday. A judge appointed the public defender's office to represent him and set his bond at $15,000. He remained in jail Monday night.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to three years in prison.