“This morning our city has a broken heart,” Steinberg said. He said the city has worked hard to attract people back to its downtown since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and that despite the shooting, the city was safe. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg decried rising gun violence at the news conference and said city officials would support the victims. And it was the second mass shooting in Sacramento in the last five weeks. this year that at least six people were killed in a mass shooting, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. Sunday’s violence was the third time in the U.S. Security guards from a nearby nightclub rushed to help the girl with what looked like napkins to try to stanch the bleeding. Her friend, Madalyn Woodard, said she saw a crowd in the street scatter amid the gunfire and a girl who appeared to have been shot in the arm laying on the ground. She walked to the window and “saw a guy running and just shooting,” Schar told The Associated Press in an interview. Kelsey Schar, 18, was staying on the fourth floor of Citizen Hotel when she said she heard gunshots and saw flashes in the dark. Shortly after the shooting, video was posted on Twitter that showed people running through the street amid the sound of rapid gunfire in the city of about 525,000 people located 75 miles (120 kilometers) from San Francisco. “We are currently working to determine what, if any, relation these events have to the shooting,” the department said in the statement. Investigators were reviewing videos from social media that appeared to show an altercation before the deadly incident, the police statement said. Asked if authorities were searching for one or more than one suspects, Lester told reporters that she did not know. “We’re asking for the public’s help in helping us to identify the suspects in this,” Lester said. WHYY thanks our sponsors - become a WHYY sponsor
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |