FREELAND — A Hazle Township man became the third person charged for his alleged role in a deadly shooting in Freeland last week.

Wally Ja Barrera Torres, 21, of Winters Avenue, was armed with a firearm when Rafiel Sanz, 18, was fatally shot and a 15-year-old boy injured in the shooting adjacent to a vape shop business at 513 Centre St. just before 2:30 a.m. Dec. 2, according to court records.

Two others, Edgar M. Polanco, 24, of 17th Street Hazleton, and Jhoan Solano Castillo, 19, of East Mine Street, Hazleton, were previously charged for their alleged roles in the deadly shooting.

Court records say Sanz, the teenage boy, Joskar Garcia Ortega, and a female were together at the vape shop when gunfire erupted from another group of people that involved Barrera Torres, Polanco and Solano Ca

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