SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A woman killed in a shooting at a south Sacramento apartment complex has been identified.
According to the Retirement Housing Foundation, Orelia "Lia" Anderson, the Resident Manager of Cardosa Village and River City Residence Club, was killed Monday. She was 36 years old.
The shooting happened at the Cardosa Village apartments on 66th Avenue. The website for Cardosa says it's a "community for persons with psychiatric disabilities and their children."
"In conversations with fellow staff members, Lia expressed her love for her job and her residents; she valued RHF’s Mission of helping people in need. We are heartbroken with this loss," the Retirement Housing Foundation said in a statement.
The housing foundation said grief counselors will be available for staff and residents. It also said Anderson started working for RHF in 2019 and was promoted to resident manager in 2020.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office says 66-year-old Leslie Weikert was arrested Monday night on suspicion of killing Anderson. The sheriff's office says he lived at the apartment complex and had a dispute with Anderson. It's unclear what the argument was about.
RHF says Weikert has lived at the apartment complex since 1997.
He was booked in the main jail without bail. He is scheduled to appear in court July 31.
Residents and their families told ABC10 they watched from their windows as it unfolded. A woman who did not want to be identified said she saw Weikert go after Anderson.
"After the shooting had happened, he just walked away nonchalantly and told a man, 'There's no one at the office to help you, I murdered them,'" she said.
Residents and their families said they'd like to see a 24/7 security guard and a new position added.
"I feel like the apartment complex needs more of a support coordinator on the premises because these people that live there, they suffer with mental disabilities or even disabilities in general, so I feel like they need somebody to communicate with them and give them life skills to better themselves as a person," the same woman said.
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