A second juvenile has been identified and charged as an adult for the 2023 shooting death of Chaviz Nguyen.
According to an online court records, Cesar Bolanos, 17, is charged with first-degree murder, four counts of armed criminal action, one count of first-degree assault and two counts of unlawful use of a weapon.
The Nov. 14 shooting left Nguyen dead and a pregnant woman hospitalized.
Prosecutors filed similar charges against another juvenile, 17-year-old Timothy Hester, on April 11, 2024.
Elysha Bedell, 19, is also charged for his suspected role in the shooting. Bedell is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action.
Hester, Bedell and Bolanos are suspected of following the woman and Nguyen through Springfield and shooting them from one car to another on the night of Nov. 14. The shooting happened at the intersection of College Avenue and Grant Avenue.
Hester and Bolanos had previously been referred to the Greene County Juvenile Office, and their cases were to be handled in juvenile court.
According to online court records, a warrant was filed for Bolanos in Greene County Associate Circuit Court on April 16.
As of Wednesday afternoon, neither Bolanos or Hester had been booked into the Greene County Jail.
KY3 first reported the charges against Bolanos on April 17.
What investigators believe happened
According to a probable cause statement from the Springfield Police Department, Nguyen was a passenger in a vehicle and was riding to go to dinner with the woman.
The woman reportedly told police she noticed another vehicle, a dark gray sedan, matching pace with her vehicle and then following her from a location on Kansas Expressway, east on Chestnut Expressway and then east on College Avenue. As she tried to turn onto Grant Avenue, she told police she heard “multiple rapid gunshots” and felt herself being shot at the intersection of College and Grant.
According to the probable cause statement in Bedell’s case, the woman who was shot was 29 weeks pregnant at the time of the shooting.
