SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a homicide in South Sacramento Thursday afternoon.
According to a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, the call came in from a home on the 7400 block of La Mancha Way around 3 p.m.
The sheriff’s office says a woman ran from a nearby park and started knocking on doors at the Willow Glen apartments to report someone had been shot.
Deputies responded and found a man dead.
Officials say the victim and the woman who reported the shooting were a homeless couple living in the park. They were arguing when gunfire started and the man was hit.
The woman is not a suspect at this time.
The death marks the third homicide Sacramento County deputies have responded to in the last 48 hours.
The first happened around 9 a.m. Wednesday at a home in Fair Oaks. The sheriff's office says a woman walked into the hospital complaining of a medical issue and then called dispatch to report a suspicious death at her home. She and her son — also the victim's roommates — were later arrested in connection with the man's death.
The second happened around 5 p.m. Wednesday on Alder Avenue as investigators were still at the scene of the Fair Oaks homicide. In this case, the victim was shot in the neck and pronounced dead at the scene. Few details are available about what happened leading up to the shooting.
This is a developing story and will be updated as we learn more.
