SEATTLE (AP) — A man charged with randomly shooting at cars along Interstate 5 near Seattle on Labor Day faces additional charges for allegedly firing at vehicles in an adjacent county on the same night, court records show.
King County prosecutors filed five first-degree assault charges against Eric Jerome Perkins last week. They said he injured five people during a shooting spree on the freeway just south of Seattle, in King County, on the night of Sept. 2.
Pierce County prosecutors have filed four additional assault charges against Perkins, claiming he shot at four other people in three different cars in the Tacoma area later that night. They also added one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, saying he had a gun after having been previously convicted or found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Adam Faber, a Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office spokesman, said since Perkins is being held in the King County jail on a $1 million bail, “I don’t expect him in Pierce anytime soon.” His arraignment on the first set of charges is set for Sept. 19.