MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A teenager accused of shooting a fellow student last month after a fight occurred in the parking lot of Northwestern Senior High School is being charged as an adult.
Police say 15-year-old Kenahri Smith shot another 15-year-old, Devin Reeves, five times with one of the bullets striking him in the head on Jan.15.
According to his arrest report, Smith and Reeves got into a verbal argument after a basketball game between Miami Northwestern and Miami Central High School and agreed to a mutual fight.
Police said a witness began filming the fight and the video shows a black handgun falling out of the front pocket of Smith’s hoodie.
According to the report, witnesses then tried to separate the two teens.
Police said Smith is seen “retreating from the fight with a clear path back to the school,” but then turns around and begins firing at the victim.
Reeves was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition.
According to the report, Smith went to the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department with his mother and grandfather on Friday and surrendered to authorities.
Police said he admitted to shooting Reeves and then discarding the gun somewhere as he fled the scene.
The gun was later found along the exterior fence of the school, authorities said.
Smith was arrested on charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm on school property, possession of a firearm by a minor, unlawful discharging of a firearm in public and interference with an educational institution.
A judge ruled Saturday that Smith would be held without bond and will remain at the Metro West Detention Center until his trial begins.
He is set to be arraigned on Monday.
Local 10 News assignment desk editor Joyce Ortega contributed to this story.