Third person pleads guilty in paintball shooting spree

The adult involved in a December paintball shooting spree pleaded guilty to one felony count of battery causing substantial bodily harm Monday in Henderson Justice Court.

Robert Lockwood, 18, also pleaded guilty to a gross misdemeanor count of conspiracy to commit battery for his role in the eight attacks, which occurred over a nine-day period and caused eye injuries to two of the victims.

Also charged in the case were two juveniles, Christian Melton, 16, and Aaron Briggs, 17.

Judge William Voy on Jan. 31 sentenced Melton to spend several months at the Caliente Youth Center. He sentenced Briggs to spend several months at the Spring Mountain Youth Camp on Mount Charleston.

Both boys were enrolled at Foothill High School until October, when they withdrew. Lockwood also was a student at the Henderson school.

The spree began on Dec. 19 when one of the trio shot Fred Honore, 73, in the area of Boulder Highway and Major Avenue. Honore, who wears a pacemaker, was shot in the chest. Two other men, Andrew Janisky, 22, and Quentin Hodowanic, 21, suffered eye injuries after being shot in separate attacks.

Janisky was shot on Dec. 26 as he gathered shopping carts in the Walmart parking lot on Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway. One of the defendants, a passenger in a car, asked Janisky for directions to U.S. Highway 95, and another person inside the vehicle shot him with a paint pellet, hurting his eye. The injury healed.

Hodowanic’s eye injury also healed.

The victims said Lockwood and the two juveniles laughed and taunted them.

Henderson Justice of the Peace David Gibson accepted Lockwood’s guilty plea. He will be arraigned in District Court on March 5.