(KNSI) – The man accused in a drive-by shooting in August of last year has pled guilty.
According to the criminal complaint, police were called to a complaint of gunshots in the area of 9th Avenue South and 6th Street about 3:15 August 22nd, 2021. They say they spoke with a teen who said he was on his way to his aunt’s house when he saw a man he knew as “Ce-Mo” sitting in a vehicle. They said he motioned for him to come over to talk to him, but he said he kept on driving, knowing Ce-Mo had been in an altercation with one of his family members earlier in the day and had damaged some of their property.
He says Ce-Mo, identified in court papers as 21-year-old Ca’Mari Smith, began following him until he made a u-turn and ended up behind Smith. It was then; the teen says Smith pointed a gun at him out of the driver’s side window and began firing. The teen was not hurt, but there was a mark where a bullet grazed his vehicle’s hood. Police say they found seven shell casings at the scene.
Investigators with the Minnetonka Police Department went to Smith’s apartment and found his vehicle in the parking garage in front of a storage locker which they said was registered to Smith. Police say a Glock pistol was found inside the storage locker with the magazine missing seven bullets. It was also allegedly equipped with an auto sear, which converts the handgun into a fully automatic gun with the push of a button.
According to the criminal complaint, police searched Smith’s apartment, where they found a .9mm high capacity drum magazine, an empty standard magazine, and an empty high capacity magazine.
He also pled guilty to assaulting a police officer after he spat on a corrections officer at the Stearns County jail in April of 2022.
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