Lynden police make two more arrests in connection with last week’s park shooting
Lynden police announced they arrested two 16-year-old Bellingham residents for their alleged involvement in last week’s drug deal gone bad at Lynden City Park that left one man hospitalized with a gunshot wound.
The two 16-year-olds, who were not identified, were booked into the Whatcom County Juvenile Detention Facility Tuesday, Feb. 11, on suspicion of first-degree assault and robbery, according to an email from Chief Steve Taylor.
Taylor added that the investigation is still active and more arrests may be made.
The juveniles represent the second and third people arrested in connection to the incident.
On Sunday, Feb. 9, Bellingham police arrested Landon Marshall Gudde, 19 of Bellingham, on for his alleged role in another gun-related incident at a York neighborhood party on Saturday. He is being held in lieu of $80,000 bail, according to jail records.
Lynden investigators considered Gudde a person of interest in the park shooting, spoke to him and added criminal conspiracy to commit robbery to his alleged offenses, Taylor told The Bellingham Herald.
Lynden police believe three individuals from Skagit County, including a 31-year-old man who was shot, drove to Lynden City Park at around 10:30 p.m. Feb. 5 to meet a Bellingham man who had agreed to purchase narcotics from them, Taylor reported.
During the transaction, two other men who accompanied the man from Bellingham, robbed the group from Skagit County, and the man was shot during the incident, Taylor wrote.
As previously reported by The Herald, police spoke to two individuals, who reported that they were waiting to meet another man in the park, when two masked men showed up and began stealing items from their car. They told police that they ran from the scene, and it was then that the third man was shot, and they got him help at the Lynden Fire Department.
Investigators also spoke to the shooting victim, who has not been identified, over the weekend as he recovers from a gunshot to the right bicep area at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Taylor reported.
