Arcata Police Department press release:

Richard Lawrence McCovey II

On 10/16/2023 at approximately 9:21 PM, the Arcata Police Department received a report that a person had been shot in the area of 27th Street and Alliance Rd.

Officers responded to the area and located an 18 year old Arcata man with a gunshot wound to the leg. The man reported he had been sitting in a vehicle along 27th Street, when a man approached the car on foot and fired multiple rounds into the vehicle, before fleeing.

Further investigation revealed the suspected shooter was know to the victim.

On 10/17/2023, officers from the Fortuna Police Department located and arrested the suspected shooter, Richard Lawrence McCovey II, 20 of Fortuna, at a business on Fortuna Blvd.

McCovey was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on suspected violations of 664/187 PC, Attempted Murder and 246 PC, Shooting at an Inhabited Dwelling/Vehicle.

Anyone with additional information related to this investigation is encouraged to call the lead detective Sgt. Luke Scown.