US Marshals guard the Supreme Court judge Sonia SotomayorThe Washington DC residence shot a suspected car thief… and the FBI says the suspect was busy.
According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, the FBI says the shooting happened early Friday morning around 1:15 a.m. when the alleged suspect, an 18-year-old Kentrell flowersapproached one of the Marshals parked in an unmarked government vehicle and pointed a gun at him through the driver’s side window in an attempted carjacking.
The documents say the marshal drew his gun and fired four shots through the window at the suspect, with the bullets hitting Flowers in the mouth. A second marshal rushed over from another car and also fired his gun, and one of the marshals gave Flowers first aid.
Police say the suspect was arrested and transported to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Flowers is charged with armed carjacking, carrying a pistol without a permit and possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device… and police shared an image of a firearm they say was recovered at the scene — a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson, model 40VE.
The FBI says the gun had no round in the chamber, but had eight rounds of .40 caliber bullets in the 13-round magazine.
The location of the shooting corresponds to the residential block of Sotomayor’s apartment… and Daily Mail was the first to report that the Marshals involved were part of the Justice Department’s security detail.
Our law enforcement sources tell us that carjackings in Washington DC are common and this incident appears to be random and not targeted.
It is unclear whether Sotomayor, who was appointed to SCOTUS by the former president Barack Obamawas home at the time of the shooting.