Ashin Scott Tricarico was booked on Friday into the Maricopa County jail where he is being held on $1 million bail in connection to a deadly shooting that killed a man and injured a dozen other people -including three who were shot- across the West Valley on Thursday.
Court records show Tricarico, 19, was in possession of an AR-15 rifle and two magazines when taken into custody in Surprise about 90 minutes after shots were fired at a woman sitting in a vehicle in Peoria. For now he is charged with one count of first-degree murder, multiple counts of aggravated assault and driveby shooting, and endangerment.
Tricarico is scheduled for a June 28 court hearing although that could change if he is indicted by a county grand jury before then. He was also involved in a shooting last month outside a Phoenix bar where Tricarico was working as a licensed armed security guard when he was charged at by a man with a .299 BAC.
According to the court records filed after Tricarico’s arrest for the shooting spree, a toddler in one of the vehicles shot at with a rifle was not injured. It is also revealed that authorities now believe the crime spree likely started Wednesday night instead of Thursday morning.
A man reportedly contacted 911 on Wednesday to report that while he was at a gas station another man who was sitting in a white SUV aimed a rifle at him. When the SUV left, the other driver followed, but says he stopped tailing the SUV when he heard a gunshot.
It is unclear what jurisdiction the gas station is in or where the gunshot was heard, or if local law enforcement officials were looking for the white SUV before a 911 call came in around 11 a.m. Thursday with a report of shots fired with a woman bleeding in a vehicle in Peoria.
About 20 minutes later passersby reported shots fired at a red colored pickup truck. It would be hours before authorities learned of a red truck found along the Loop 101. The male driver, age 56, was deceased. He had a gunshot wound to his neck and had driven into a canal, the court records show.
The next victim was a woman who was simply sitting in her car when the rear window was shot out. No injuries were reported in that incident, but two blocks away shots were fired at a moving passenger vehicle, resulting in one woman suffering a gunshot wound to a leg.
The driver of the vehicle was injured from some type of shrapnel or glass but was able to reach a hospital. Both have been released.
The next 911 calls came into the Surprise Police Department for two separate shootings in the area of West Bell Road between 113th and 118th Avenues. The exact injuries to those victims, two men, is unclear but neither was seriously harmed.
Three more victims were injured about 15 minutes later when bullets hit the van they were riding in on southbound Loop 303. At least one of the victims reported the shots were fired from a white SUV.
The shooting spree came to an end around 12:45 p.m. when an employee of the Surprise Fire Department spotted a white Volkswagen Tiguan SUV which matched the suspect vehicle. Police conducted a high-risk felony traffic stop and Tricarico was “taken into custody without incident,” according to Surprise PD Sgt. Tommy Hall.
Physical evidence was recovered from several scenes and there were multiple witnesses who described the white SUV and the driver/shooter. Authorities believe this is the order of Thursday’s shootings, although the timeline could change after surveillance cameras are reviewed from the areas of the shootings.
– 103rd Avenue / West Northern Avenue
– Loop 101 / Thunderbird Road
– 109th Avenue / West Union Hills Drive
– 111th Avenue / West Union Hills Drive
– 113th Avenue / West Bell Road
– 118th Avenue / West Bell Road
– 21800 North El Mirage Road
– Loop 303 / Happy Valley Road