A 22-year-old man suspected in a late-night shooting that injured two people was arrested Wednesday in Palm Springs.
Joel Ramirez Benitez of Palm Springs was arrested early Wednesday morning near North Indian Canyon Drive, according to inmate records. He was subsequently booked into the John J. Benoit Detention Center in Indio, where he remains held on $1 million bail.
Officers responded at 10:25 p.m. Tuesday to reports of a shooting in the 2600 block of East Tahquitz Canyon Way, according to the Palm Springs Police Department. Two people were shot and sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.
Police said officers are still trying to determine the motive for the shooting.
No other information was immediately available.
Anyone with information on the shooting was asked to call the department’s investigations division at 760-323-8021 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 760-347-7867.