CENTRALIA — Centralia police are asking the public to be on the lookout for a Centralia couple believed responsible for a Thursday night shooting that sent a 39-year-old man to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Police Chief Doug Krutsinger says the man shot, Fernando Calcutt, identified 25-year-old Charles Collins, also known as “Squirt,” as the person who shot him. Calcutt was shot in the right arm as the two vehicles passed each other. He was able to drive himself to the hospital.

Krutsinger says Collins is the man injured in the August 23rd shooting in the Maulding Drive area that resulted in the death of 24-year-old Dustin Ryhnes of Irvington. That shooting remains under an investigation being headed by State Police. There have been no arrests in that shooting.

Calcutt reported that around 6:30 Thursday night, he and his wife Inez were attempting to turn around and had just pulled into a driveway on Linden near the 4th Street intersection when the SUV carrying Collins who began firing shots at him, with the shots reportedly continuing as the vehicle came closer.

Calcutt told police that Collins was hanging out of the passenger window of the vehicle driven by his girlfriend, 23-year-old Amilia “Milli” Rivera, of Centralia, when the two vehicles encountered each other near the old Centralia High School. Krutsinger reports Rivera’s children were not with her at the time and that she regularly drove Collins around town.

State, county, and local police are searching for the couple, as well as the vehicle they were in, described as a 2004 silver Ford Explorer with license plate E838708.

Krutsinger says as soon as reports of the shooting came in, additional officers and agencies were called in and combed the area without success for the vehicle or the two suspects. .

He also says neighboring agencies were notified immediately and were provided with descriptions of the two suspects and their vehicle; however, a regional search so far has not located either the suspects, or the Ford Explorer.