UPDATE: 18-year-old arrested in West Side Walmart parking lot shooting
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Police arrested 18-year-old Cade Davies-Gaeta on suspicion of being the gunman in Sunday's shooting in a Walmart parking lot in West Lafayette, police said.
Gabriel Padgett, 18, survived the gunshot wound he received about 6:20 p.m. Sunday, according to West Lafayette police.
Padgett and Davies-Gaeta met at the Walmart in the 2800 block of Northwestern Avenue, and it turned into an attempted robbery and shooting, police said. Police arrested Davies-Gaeta on a warrant on unrelated charges of carrying a handgun without a license and carrying a handgun on school property.
Police also booked Davies-Gaeta into jail on suspicion of attempted armed robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, police said.
Officers found Padgett wounded below the waist, according to West Lafayette police. He was treated at a Lafayette hospital and later released, according to West Lafayette police, who are still investigating the shooting.
Padgett, who lives in West Lafayette, was on the east end of the parking lot — the garden section end of the store — and near a car when he was shot, West Lafayette police said.
Police are not yet releasing suspect information or descriptions of the car that Padgett was near when he was shot.
Police cleared the scene at the parking lot Sunday night but continued to investigate throughout the night and into Monday morning.
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