An off-duty law enforcement officer witnessed an alleged drive-by shooting Sunday morning in north Spokane and followed the shooter’s car until deputies pulled him and his passenger over, according to the Spokane County Sheriff’s Office.
The driver, 23-year-old Douglas M. Birdtail, and the passenger, 33-year-old Juan D. Grigsby, were booked into the Spokane County Jail on suspicion of drive-by shooting, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. An unlawful possession of a firearm charge was later added to Grigsby’s case, according to Spokane County Superior Court.
Deputies responded at about 9:35 a.m. to the shooting near the 2000 block of North Waikiki Road, the release said. The caller, an off-duty law enforcement officer, was driving in the area when he heard a gunshot and saw Grigsby, a convicted felon who is not allowed to have a gun, in the front passenger seat of a blue Chevrolet Cobalt holding a pistol out the window…