The suspect who allegedly shot a 9-year-old pleaded not guilty in court.
Police say Alberto Pinedas Contreras left town after being named a suspect in the March 7 shooting of a 9-year-old child on Russell Cave Road in Lexington.
Police say the little boy was riding in an SUV with his mother and two other siblings when a man in a white Maxima fired several shots in the area of hollow creek. 9-year-old Antonio was critically injured and is still in the hospital.
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Before being named as a suspect, Contreras was picked up on a minor charge and booked into the Fayette County Detention Center. Before police could get a warrant for the assault, Alberto Pinedas Contreras was released from custody. He took off to West Virginia where he was picked u by police and immigration agents on March 12.
The judge referred Contreras’ case to the Public Defender’s office
