Overview
- Twenty-year-old Kaziya Penn was apprehended Monday at his residence after ballistics testing linked his handgun to the shooting.
- A 14-year-old bystander was hospitalized with a leg wound after shots rang out in Scissortail Park following the Thunder’s Game 7 win.
- Police determined the gunfire resulted from a separate park altercation near Oklahoma City Boulevard and South Robinson Avenue and was not tied to championship celebrations.
- Investigators used the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network to match casings from the June 22 incident to the weapon seized during a June 24 traffic stop.
- Penn confessed to firing in defense of his cousin, and he now faces unlawful firearm possession and assault and battery charges as prosecutors move forward with indictment.