21-year-old shooter arrested "for actions unrelated to the shooting" 
 
 LONGMONT -- Police are investigating a Friday night shooting at a home on the 2500 block of Cambridge that left 18-year-old Premila Lal dead. Lal was a recent Niwot High School graduate. Early Saturday morning, Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur, officers were dispatched to the Longmont United Hospital on a call about a teenage female, identified as Premila Lal, who had been brought to the hospital after being shot. Satur announced that the man, identified as Nerrek Galley of Orem, Utah, had been arrested about 2:11 a.m. "for actions unrelated to the shooting." Satur said the shooting is not gang related and that drugs and alcohol do not appear to be involved. ( Courtesy Facebook ) 
 
 Satur added, however, that "we can characterize this young woman's death as unintended and extremely tragic." Satur said it appears the shooting was “unintended and extremely tragic.” 
 
 Family members said Lal and Galley were best friends and Lal was hiding in a closet and jumped out to scare Galley and he shot her after being startled. Satur said, "This shooting was isolated to the home on Cambridge Drive and does not appear to be motivated by anger ... At this time we are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the shooting, but there is no danger to the community." The incident happened Friday when Premila Lal and her 12-year-old cousin decided to play a joke on Nerrek Galley, a close family friend, according to Lal's father. She said from what she understood, the children lived with a relative during the week and stayed with their parents on weekends. "We thought maybe there was an intruder in the house and maybe some people knew we moved, and they were coming to check if we got everything so we started clearing the house," Pranil told KUSA. Galley is suspected of child abuse, reckless endangerment and permitting a juvenile to have a firearm, according to an arrest report Satur provided to the media late Saturday morning. The front door was open but there was a glass door that was closed an unlocked." Officers there notified Galley of his Miranda rights and he agreed to discuss the incident.
– An 18-year-old Colorado woman who tried to surprise a friend was shot dead by the startled man, police say. Premila Lal had apparently sneaked into the house 21-year-old Nerrek Galley was staying at and jumped out of a closet Friday night. (CNN reports the Longmont home belonged to Lal's family, and Galley was a family friend.) Two witnesses, including Lal's 15-year-old brother, were present, and police say her death was "unintended and extremely tragic," reports the Times-Call. Police say drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the death. Galley is being held on charges including reckless endangerment, but Lal's father says he feels no anger toward the man. "We lost a daughter, so we don’t want anybody else to lose their son, you know, especially when it was an accident," he tells CBS. (It wasn't the only deadly shooting this weekend: A 3-year-old girl died in Yellowstone's first fatal shooting in more than 30 years.)