A former Twentynine Palms Marine who was shot in the head more than six years ago in a drive-by shooting in Desert Hot Springs, died in Seattle last week. Craig Maddy, died February 8, with a cause of death given as “multiple complications of traumatic brain injury due to a gunshot wound to the head.” He was 27. Maddy, who was 21 at the time of the shooting, had gone to Palm Springs with three other Twentynine Palms Marines to celebrate a friend’s birthday at a bar. While they were at the bar, there was an altercation between the Marines and another group of men. About 2 a.m. on December 6, as the Marines were driving back to Twentynine Palms, another vehicle sped up behind their Dodge Charger on Indian Canyon just south of the freeway and fired multiple shots through the back windshield. Maddy, who was sitting in the back seat, was struck in the head and was critically injured. He survived the shooting and his family took him to Seattle where they cared for him for the past six years. Craig Maddy had returned from a deployment to Afghanistan just a few weeks before the shooting. His shooting remains unsolved.
