California store owner who shot 9-year-old girl in mall shooting is charged

A California sneaker retailer proprietor who shot a 9-year-old woman inside a shopping center whereas concentrating on a pair of suspected shoplifters will face criminals costs, authorities mentioned Monday. 

Marquel Cockrell, 20, has been charged with assault with a firearm, use of a firearm, discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, private infliction of nice bodily harm and carrying of a loaded unregistered handgun on an individual or car, the San Bernardino County District Lawyer’s Workplace mentioned.

The taking pictures occurred on April 12 on the Victor Valley Mall in Victorville, 80 miles northeast of Los Angeles. 

On the time, Cockrell was the co-owner of Sole Addicts, a shoe retailer. Investigators decided he was chasing two shoplifters out of the shop and fired a number of photographs at them. 

He missed and struck the younger woman, who has been recognized as Ava, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Division mentioned. 

Cockrell fled the scene however his car was discovered just a few hours later in Nevada and was arrested by the Nevada Freeway Patrol. He was held in Clark County jail on $1 million bail for tried homicide on an extraditable warrant. 

He has since been returned to California and was scheduled to look in court docket Monday.