A Greenwood teen who was arrested earlier this week for his involvement in a drive-by shooting said he shot at a man because he sold him fake marijuana six years ago, and because he wanted street credibility.
Jonah Henderson, 18, 1194 S. Morgantown Road, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of attempted murder. The Johnson County Prosecutor’s Office will decide what, if any, charges to file.
Police were dispatched at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday to the 5000 block of Old Smith Valley Road on a report of shots fired. A man told police he had been shot at by Henderson, according to court documents.
The man told police he ran into Henderson at the gas station earlier that morning, and he and Henderson had exchanged dirty looks. He told police Henderson and another occupant of the car then followed him to a house on Old Smith Valley Road, court documents said.
That is when Henderson got out of the vehicle and pointed "something" at the man. The man heard multiple gunshots. One of the bullets broke glass on the porch and a second hit a wall above his head, according to court documents.
Officers at the scene found several bullet holes near the home, including one at head height near the door where the man and a woman were standing, on a cardboard box on the deck near the front door and in a garbage can outside the home, court documents said.
Henderson fled the scene and was arrested later that day at a trailer park in Edinburgh.
Henderson told Johnson County Sheriff’s Office detectives in an interview he bought the gun for $200 in Indianapolis, and he and a juvenile were going to the gas station when he saw the man and got angry. He told police the man had sold him fake marijuana when he was 12 years old, according to court documents.
He also told detectives he shot at the man because he was trying to gain "street credibility," court documents said.
After the shooting, Henderson told detectives he took an Uber to Walmart where he stole a sweatshirt to conceal his identity. He then took an Uber to his Greenwood home and drove down to Edinburgh, where he was later arrested, according to court documents.
He is being held at the Johnson County jail.
