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Divers continue search for weapon in Delavan Lake shooting

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Photo by Terry Mayer

A Walworth County Sheriff's deputy guides a diver along the bottom of a channel in the Lake Delavan Highlands subdivision Thursday. Divers are searching for a weapon they believe was used in an Aug. 5, 2010 shooting near Delavan Lake.

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Nathan N. Williams

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Corey D. Moore-Morrison

Members of the Walworth County Sheriff's Office dive team search the channel in the Lake Delavan Highlands subdivision Aug. 12, 2010 for a weapon used in the shooting of a Lake Geneva man a week earlier. Terry Mayer/staff.

DELAVAN TOWNSHIP -- Walworth County Sheriff's Office divers continued to search the channel in the Lake Delavan Highlands subdivision Thursday for a weapon believed to have been used in a shooting near Delavan Lake a week ago.

Two suspects in the shooting, Corey D. Moore-Morrison, 18, of Janesville and Nathan N. Williams, 28, remain confined to the Walworth County Jail on probation violations.

Eric Grethe, 20, of Lake Geneva was listed in fair condition last week after recovering from surgery to remove the bullet.

Authorities are continuing their investigation to determine what provoked the shooting, Walworth County Sheriff David Graves said.

The sheriff’s office dive team began searching the channel off the south end of Delavan Lake on Friday for the gun and other evidence, Graves said.

The suspects told authorities that's where they had disposed of the weapon.

The sheriff encouraged anyone with information about the location of the weapon to call police.

Witnesses reported the shooting at 3:46 p.m. Aug. 5, 2010 near South Shore Drive and Doris Street on the south side of Delavan Lake, according to a news release from the Walworth County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff’s deputies found a man with a gunshot wound to the back in the yard of a nearby home, Graves said.

Deputies searched the area for two men who witnesses said had fled on foot around the southwest end of the lake, he said.

Deputies arrested Moore-Morrison at 4:27 p.m. Thursday after he walked out of the woods near Viewcrest Drive, which is east of County O and south of North Shore Drive in Delavan Township, Graves said.

They arrested Williams at 5:26 p.m. Thursday after they tracked him into the Ravenswood subdivision east of County O in Delavan Township, he said.

Deputies were able to find the men fairly quickly because witnesses provided good descriptions of the suspects and the directions in which they fled, Graves said. Deputies used search dogs, a boat and a helicopter to track the men, he said.

The victim and suspects apparently arrived in the area in two vehicles, Graves said. Investigators believe the men gathered in the victim’s vehicle and got into an argument and the victim was shot in the back with a small-caliber handgun, he said.

The men struggled over control of the vehicle before the suspects fled, entered their own vehicle, drove a short distance and then fled on foot, Graves said. The victim managed to get out of his vehicle, stumble into a nearby yard and tell people he had been shot, he said.

Moore-Morrison is on probation from three misdemeanor convictions in Walworth County in 2009 for battery, disorderly conduct and criminal damage to property, according to online court records.

Williams is on probation from a felony conviction in Kenosha County in 2004 for hit and run involving great bodily harm and a felony conviction in Walworth County in 2004 for substantial battery, according to online court records.

The case had not yet been referred to the district attorney’s office, Graves said.