SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jan. 2 update:
Sacramento police told ABC10 that a woman who was injured in a shooting in the Colonial Village on New Year's morning died in the hospital.
Police said a man was pronounced dead at the scene of the 7400 block of 17th Avenue while responding to reports of a shooting.
Two women were taken to the local hospital where one of them died from their injuries. The other woman is expected to survivie.
Original story:
By 7 a.m. on New Year's Day, the Sacramento Police Department was already at the scene of its second shooting investigation that left someone dead.
According to police, around 6:30 a.m., officers were called to the 7400 block of 17th Avenue in the Colonial Village neighborhood for a report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found three shooting victims, two women and one man.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The two women were taken to an area hospital.
This is the second reported shooting on New Year's Day in Sacramento. The first happened around 3 a.m. in Oak Park and resulted in one death and a teenage girl wounded. Police do not believe the two incidents are related.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 916-443-4357.
“It was a bloody, bloody 24 hours in Sacramento,” said Berry Accius with the nonprofit “Voice of the Youth.”
Accius has made repeated calls for investment in community organizations rather than policing, which he believes can solve the problem. He said the coronavirus pandemic has only layered problems in Sacramento communities like poverty and gun violence.
“When we’re ready to invest, I feel the problems will go away,” Accius said. “And when we’re ready to target, I believe some of the instigators and a lot of those folks are people that are selling the guns in our communities, I think that you’ll have a great…downward spiral of gun violence in our community when the guns are off our street.”
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