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Man Suspected Of Shooting Marc Cohn Arrested In Attempted Car Jacking

September 7, 2005

Police said on Tuesday that the man suspected of shooting Grammy-winning singer Marc Cohn in the head during a botched carjacking was arrested after a standoff at an abandoned Denver house.

Joseph Yachteen, 26, was taken into custody about 11:30 p.m. Monday for shooting and slightly wounding Cohn and the singer's road manager on Sunday night, Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said.

Cohn was released from a Denver hospital Monday morning after surgeons removed a bullet from his right temple that lodged in the 46-year-old singer's skull.

Sonny Jackson said that the bullet hit Cohn's road manager Tom Dube first and then it struck the singer.

Police said that Cohn was riding in a van driven by Dube after performing on Sunday and Yachteen tried to commandeer the vehicle.

When Dube refused to stop, Yachteen fired into the vehicle, wounding both men.

Yachteen fled the scene in another stolen car., Denver police summoned the U.S. Marshals Service, Deputy U.S. Marshal Steve Wallisch said.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Steve Wallisch said that staked out Yachteen's girlfriend's father's house and stopped the woman when she drove away.

Yachteen was hiding in an abandoned house and

police shot him with nonlethal rubber bullets and subdued him, police spokesman Jackson said.

Yachteen was wanted for skipping a court date on drug and weapons possession charges, Jackson said.

He now faces an additional 24 charges including murder charges.