Two men have pleaded not guilty to murder charges after prosecutors say they plotted to ambush and kill an 18-year-old man in October outside a Seattle Chipotle as revenge for allegedly stealing clothing from one of the men’s apartments.
Police are still searching for a 16-year-old girl they believe acted as a lookout during the Oct. 9 shooting, which killed Jaydon Wendel Jameson and injured two bystanders, court records show.
King County prosecutors charged Isaiah Kanehisa-Glenn, 29, and Jahlil Ray, 28, on Feb. 23 with first-degree murder with a firearm, first-degree assault and second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm. The men, both from Seattle, were being held Tuesday in King County Jail in lieu of $5 million bond.
Prosecutors also charged the girl last month in juvenile court with first-degree murder and two counts of first-degree assault, said Casey McNerthney, a spokesperson for the King County prosecuting attorney’s office.
Kanehisa-Glenn allegedly started plotting to shoot Jameson on Oct. 9 after seeing a photo of Jameson wearing a sweatshirt, shoes and jeans that he believed the teen stole from his apartment the night before, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in King County Superior Court.
Hours before the shooting, Kanehisa-Glenn allegedly sent messages to people asking for Jameson’s location and threatening to “get (him) back.” In one of the messages, he offered Ray $400 to borrow a handgun, using a slang term to say he intended to kill someone with the weapon, court records show.
Security footage captured about 8 p.m. Oct. 9 outside the Chipotle on Broadway in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood appears to show Kanehisa-Glenn, Ray and an accomplice waiting to ambush Jameson as he exited the restaurant, according to the affidavit.
The footage first shows Jameson walk into the Chipotle at 8:02 p.m. A white Dodge Charger parks nearby three minutes later, and the girl, then 15, appears to get out of the car and stand across the street from the restaurant while texting on her cellphone, court records show.
Cellphone records reviewed by investigators showed messages between the girl and Kanehisa-Glenn, her pimp, who was asking her for updates on Jameson’s movements inside the restaurant, according to the affidavit.
At 8:07 p.m., three people wearing all black and with their faces covered — later identified as Kanehisa-Glenn, Ray and the accomplice — are shown in the footage walking up to the Chipotle’s entrance. As Jameson exited the restaurant at 8:14 p.m., Ray and the accomplice appeared to block the teen’s way. The footage then shows Kanehisa-Glenn walking up to Jameson from behind and firing at him at least 10 times with a handgun, according to the affidavit.
Kanehisa-Glenn allegedly fired at Jameson, paused, then stepped closer and fired again directly at the young man as he lay motionless on the sidewalk, police wrote in the affidavit.
The three men fled, and witnesses told Seattle police officers they saw Kanehisa-Glenn and Ray getting into the Charger and driving off. The girl stayed on the sidewalk until several minutes after the shooting, when Kanehisa-Glenn texted her: “He dead?”
“Yes,” she replied, according to the affidavit.
Jameson was taken to Harborview Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds, court records show.
Bullets also struck two bystanders in their legs. The men, 19 and 30, took themselves to Harborview Medical Center where they were interviewed by detectives, court records show.
A 19-year-old woman walked up to police at the scene and said her pimp, Kanehisa-Glenn, was the person who fired and that he owned a white Dodge Charger, according to the affidavit.
Investigators learned the Charger seen leaving the scene was registered under a fake name with a South Beacon Hill address. Officers waited outside the home and saw Kanehisa-Glenn arrive on a skateboard about 9:15 p.m. They arrested him about an hour later, when he walked out of the apartment carrying the Charger’s key fob, court records show.
Detectives serving a search warrant for the home found records of the Charger's purchase and an Indiana state ID with the fake name and a photo of Kanehisa-Glenn, according to the affidavit.
Detectives later found the Charger parked about 10 miles north in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood. Surveillance camera footage captured shortly after the shooting appeared to show Kanehisa-Glenn taking bags out of the car and walking away, according to the affidavit.
On Feb. 13, Seattle police officers arrested Ray, who was carrying a 9-mm Glock handgun modified to function as an automatic handgun, court records say.
In an interview with detectives, Ray said he was at the scene of the shooting and left with Kanehisa-Glenn after he fired at Jameson. According to the affidavit, Ray said he did not know where Kanehisa-Glenn acquired the gun.
Reached by phone Tuesday, Kanehisa-Glenn's attorney declined an interview, and Ray's attorney said he needed to speak with him before talking about the case.
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