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Teen accused in fatal First Friday shooting faces arraignment on murder indictment
Issac Manriquez, 17, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday morning on a felony murder charge in the Oct. 2 shooting death of 15-year-old Carth Jacobs at a First Friday event, according to the indictment. He also faces battery charges for two other people wounded in the incident.
A 17-year-old accused of opening fire during an October First Friday event is set to be arraigned Thursday morning on a murder indictment, court records show.
Issac Manriquez faces a felony murder charge in the death of 15-year-old Carth Jacobs, who was killed on Oct. 2, according to the indictment. The charge alleges the killing was carried out with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang. Manriquez also faces battery charges connected to the shootings of two other people, identified in the indictment as Angel Morales and J.S.
Manriquez is being held without bail at the Clark County Detention Center. His arraignment is scheduled for 9 a.m. Thursday.
According to an arrest report, the shooting followed an encounter between two groups that began challenging each other before a fight broke out.
Investigators identified Manriquez using surveillance video, nine recovered shell casings and a wallet left at the scene that contained a card bearing his name.
The shooting has had ripple effects beyond the courthouse. First Friday, the monthly downtown arts and culture festival, remains paused in the wake of the violence, and local artists have organized independent art crawls in the interim.
The case also highlights the toll of gun violence on young people in the Las Vegas Valley: both the accused and the slain teenager are minors. Community advocates have long argued that violence prevention programs, after-school investment and gang intervention efforts are underfunded relative to the scale of the problem.
Manriquez is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. Thursday's hearing is expected to formally present the charges and allow him to enter a plea.