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Three Selma residents are in the Elmore County Jail facing murder after shots were fired into two occupied vehicles urin a January incident.

According to the Elmore County jail officer, Kordez Ervin, 24, Latrell White, 23; and Gabriel Wade, 21, face several charges from a Jan. 15 incident. 

The shootings took place at the 3100 block of Highway 14. Millbrook police responded to reports of shots fired. On the scene, first responders and investigators found two vehicles that had been hit by gunfire.

Two victims were inside a bullet-riddled 2018 Hyundai Elantra that investigators noted had been hit by gunfire at least 32 times. A 22-year-old Selma resident was taken to an area hospital after being shot on his left side. The other passenger was not hurt.

Investigators said a 39-year-old Prattville resident had damage to her vehicle after it was struck three times by bullets.

Court filings state that witnesses saw men in a black Nissan Altima with tinted windows and no license plate shooting at the other vehicles before fleeing. The suspects were pursued but last seen in the Prattville area near Highway 14 and Old Farm Lane, the filings said.

The filings added that minutes later, Prattville police saw an identical vehicle leaving a business on Old Farm Lane and turning onto Highway 14 in the direction of Millbrook. It was at that point Prattville officers made a traffic stop and detained Ervin and White.

Investigators noted in the court filings that a witness identified the vehicle as the same type and color that fired the shots, although it now had a license plate.

Upon further investigation, the vehicle pulled behind a business on Old Farm Lane where one of the suspects “sprinted to the dumpster.” Police recovered three Glock firearms as evidence, “each equipped with an illegal conversion switch.”

Police later identified Wade as the third suspect after reviewing surveillance video that indicated he was “the subject that discarded the guns into the dumpster.”

Ervin and White face two counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder. Wade faces two counts of attempted murder and two counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle.

Each suspect is being held on bail totaling $360,000.