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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sacramento shooting: At least six dead in centre of California state capital
2022-04-03
[BBC] At least six people have been killed and 10 injured in a shooting in the centre of Sacramento, police in California's state capital say.

People fled through the streets after automatic gunfire rang out in an area packed with restaurants and bars in the early hours of Sunday.

Police nearby responded to the gunfire and came across a "very large crowd", police chief Katherine Lester said.

No suspect is yet in custody in the wake of the shootings.

"This is a really tragic situation," Chief Lester said.

The officer said investigators had arrived at the scene and urged the public to come forward with any information that might help identify those responsible.

The shooting took place at around 02:00 (09:00 GMT) in an area at 10th Street and K that leads to the Golden One Center, where the Sacramento Kings play basketball.
Do we know anything about that neighbourhood beyond lots of bars and restaurants?
It is also only a few streets from the state Capitol building.

Community activist Barry Accius arrived at the scene at about 02:30 after a city council member called him about the shooting, he told ABC affiliate station KXTV.
Why would a local politician call him in particular?
"It was just horrific," he said. "Just as soon as I walked up you saw a chaotic scene, police all over the place, victims with blood all over their bodies, folks screaming, folks crying, people going, 'Where is my brother?' Mothers crying and trying to identify who their child was."
Posted by:Skidmark

#17  No
Posted by: Winky Poodle1618   2022-04-03 23:58  

#16  My question is: Did Black Lives Matter?
Posted by: badanov   2022-04-03 22:56  

#15  Finally, an update from the Times of Israel liveblog:

Sacramento’s police chief says there were multiple shooters in the mass shooting that killed six people and injured 12.
Police Chief Kathy Lester also tells reporters Sunday that three of the victims who died were women and three were men. She said all were adults.

The shots were fired early Sunday morning as people filed out of bars and nightclubs. A video posted to Twitter showed people running through the street amid the sounds of rapid gunfire.

Posted by: trailing wife   2022-04-03 22:36  

#14  Boom! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how we do it at Rantburg, and why I don’t actually have to know anything at all.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-04-03 19:34  

#13  Gangs for certain TW. If you look at the Video you see graffiti in several spots proximate to the interviews. This was a higher end restaurant and shopping area, pedestrian only, no POVs on K street, streetcars only. The Westfield Mall in # 3 above was a huge multilevel shopping mall, center of downtown and linked down to Old Sacramento and the river. But that was the snapshot in 2010.
Tragic urban decline, 2 blocks from the state capitol.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-04-03 16:40  

#12  Carry onlike that and you’ll break your cover as a low level IT guy, Skidmark. ;-)

an Hispanic-African-American fray.

Gangs?
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-04-03 14:55  

#11  Bars closed @2AM put crowds in the street.
Drive-by shooting with a rifle reported.
Firing cadence heard in the video suggests semi-auto, not automatic.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-04-03 14:10  

#10  1 Block from our old office building for Homeland Security, and only two blocks from the state capitol. Sacramento Bee had it vaguely linked to a Rapper Event a few blocks further downtown. 2am, and not description of the victims beyond one relative named Letitia, and photos of the wounded that were being removed. There is a video of an apparent major fight in the area involving 10-15 young men and it appears to be an Hispanic-African-American fray. My guess is the report of automatic weapons fire might have been a follow-on to that event.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2022-04-03 12:59  

#9  2am shooting

and it was crowded???
Posted by: Lord Garth   2022-04-03 11:49  

#8  Mutual combat? Call an activist.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-04-03 11:28  

#7  How many legislators were involved?
Posted by: Jatle Sinatra9653   2022-04-03 11:16  

#6  From Skidmark’s Fox News link:

Berry Accius of Sacramento's Voice of the Youth

According to LinkedIn , he is the founder/CEO of Voice of the Youth, a group that mentors and provides life skills training for at-risk youth who, based on the pictures on the website, are entirely African-American.

Interesting video at that link, too.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-04-03 10:23  

#5  Why would a local politician call him in particular?

Voice of the Youth
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-04-03 10:16  

#4  Social distancing would have reduced the death toll...
Posted by: Glenmore   2022-04-03 10:16  

#3  The last time I stayed in downtown Sacramento, the Westfield mall by the capital was dead with closed up shops and predominantly vibrant and diverse roving groups of feral youts
Posted by: Frank G   2022-04-03 09:49  

#2  Must be fake news. Cali is gun control utopia.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-04-03 09:31  

#1  6 people dead after downtown Sacramento shooting: Police
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-04-03 09:24  

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