SEATTLE -- Charges have been filed against the man accused of shooting a rival gang member in broad daylight outside the King County Youth Services Center in the city's Central District.

Edourado Dante Motley, 21, of Seattle has been charged with first-degree assault with a firearm and first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.

Motley is accused in the August 14 shooting of Monroe Ezell in front of the courthouse and detention facility at 1211 East Alder Street.

According to the statement of probable cause, two rival gangs - Deuce Eight - Black Gangsta Disciples of the Central District and 74 Hoover Crips of South Rainier Valley - got into an argument over the presence of the "south enders" in the C.D. for their court date.

The argument began inside the courthouse, but moved outside where Ezell and six others were shot at by a passenger of a white four-door sedan headed north on 12th around 10:30 a.m., investigators said. A number of innocent bystanders were present at the time, but Ezell's was the only reported injury.

Police said Ezell sustained several gunshot wounds, including a near-fatal wound to the buttocks through which a bullet traveled to his colon and stomach area.

Detectives located the getaway vehicle the next day. After questioning its occupants, investigators determined Motley, a self-admitted member of the Deuce-Eight gang, was the gunman in the shooting, the document said.

Motley's record lists multiple past felony convictions, including first-degree assault with a firearm in a "remarkably similar gang-related drive-by shooting," and a violation of the Uniform Controlled Substance Act, according to the statement. He was convicted as a juvenile and was released on his 21st birthday last April.

Motley is being held on $1 million bail.

He is scheduled to be arraigned on Oct. 28. If convicted, he faces up to 244 months in prison.