Jessie FairleyCleveland City Jail
CLEVELAND, Ohio — A man and woman are charged in connection with the Friday afternoon shooting of two teenagers who were watching a fight at a bus stop in the city’s Lee-Harvard neighborhood.
Jesse Fairley, 23, of Cleveland, and Shanena Stevens, 21, of Cleveland Heights, are charged with felonious assault. Both were arrested shortly after the shooting Friday.
Fairley is being held in the city jail on $150,000 bond after his court appearance on Monday. Stevens’ bond was set Monday at $50,000.
Shanena StevensCleveland City Jail
Fairley found out that his brother was going to be involved in a fight that day, according to court records. Stevens drove him to the fight, court records.
The fight broke between several teens about 3:30 p.m. at a bus stop outside a Walgreen’s pharmacy on Harvard Avenue near John F. Kennedy High School.
Fairley saw the fight and ran over with a gun drawn, according to police.
Fairley fired two shots into the crowd, hitting the two 17-year-old boys watching the fight, according to police.
Fairley and Stevens jumped into a black Volvo and sped away from police arriving at the scene, according to police.
Stevens tried to speed away from the police officers who tried to stop her, court records say. She eventually crashed into a pole at the Lee-Harvard Shopping Center, police said.
Both tried to run from police after the crash, but were arrested, according to police.
Fairley later admitted to detectives to firing gunshots at the crowd, according to court records.
Fairley has amassed several felony convictions since 2011.
He served a nine-month prison sentence for a 2011 robbery in Cleveland Heights that ended in a man being shot. He and another man, who was never identified by police, robbed the man on Kenilworth Road, just off Mayfield Road. The other robber fired several shots at the man and hit him in the thigh.
Fairley also was convicted of three other felonies in 2011, including for breaking into a man’s home on Cleveland’s East Side, for drug trafficking and drug possession. He also had a 2015 conviction for walking away from a halfway house despite a court order that he stay there.
Stevens has one felony conviction in 2014 for being part of a 13-person group that forged checks and stole thousands of dollars from unsuspecting victims. She was ordered to pay $116 in restitution and a $1,000 fine.
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