A 20-year-old man, identified as Kaziya Penn, has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a 14-year-old boy at Scissortail Park that unfolded on the night the Oklahoma City Thunder clinched the NBA Finals on June 22, officials said. The incident, marred further by the celebration of a city's sports pinnacle, took place around 10:35 p.m., amid downtown revelry. KFOR reports responding officers found the teenager wounded, his condition stabilizing thankfully at a local hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
According to the KOCO account, the victim, transported to OU Health, conveyed to officers he neither knew the identity of the shooter nor the motive behind the sudden violence that found him. Driving without a tag light two days later, the suspect was pulled over near the park, lacking a valid driver's license to boot.
In a sequence of investigative steps, a handgun discovered in the vehicle of Penn during the traffic stop was tested against the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN). According to a statement by the Oklahoma City Police Department, obtained by OKC FOX, "Penn's handgun was entered into the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) and was determined as the weapon used in the shooting on June 22."
