Glen Burkey, 25, was apprehended Wednesday by police following a response by SWAT and the use of flash bang devices in the block of Clark Fork Lane in Missoula, according to a Missoula police news release. Burkey surrendered and was taken into custody without incident, according to the release.
When he is brought back to Spokane, Burkey will face charges of a drive-by shooting, second-degree murder and second-degree assault, according to a previous news release from the Spokane Police Department.
Looper was shot in the head while he sat on a bed playing video games at his father's friend's north Spokane home on Saturday around a. The bullet went through the back door, killing him, she said. According to court records, security video in the neighborhood captured five gunshots.
A man was seen running away from the home as six more shots are heard from a different area. Police later found five shots were fired into the door Looper was behind, sitting on a bed playing video games. A friend of Burkey told investigators they had been drinking most of the day on Saturday, the day of the shooting, court records say. When the friend went to Burkey's home to pick him up to try and find cocaine, they all drove to the Bemiss neighborhood. He couldn't remember anything else because he was intoxicated, court records say.
The friend heard the next morning that a teen was shot in the same neighborhood. The friend was told Burkey was being chased by another man down the street that night, shooting at him, according to court documents.
