Every New Years in Sacramento CA we have a fireworks show in "Old Sacramento", which is tourist like area on the river. Five people were shot, two died. The fireworks show at midnight was canceled. This area is usually crowed with tourists, and totally packed on New Years.
What's really interesting is that there was an armed guard involved, and police on horses arrived in thirty seconds.
Here's a report from the
SacBee:
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Old Sacramento was packed with families who had come for a 9 p.m. fireworks show and other wholesome entertainment. When officers arrived on the scene, they eventually were to find five people shot, two of whom died later on the scene.
Police said the chaotic situation began when an argument erupted at a bar at the corner of 2nd and K streets. The argument then grew into a fight and an employee of the establishment tried to intervene.
Police said that one of the combatants drew a weapon and fired several rounds toward those he was fighting. A 30-year-old woman, a 35-year-old man and an employee of the business in his 20s were hit by gunfire.
The woman, who was hit in her lower body, survived her injuries.
However, the 35-year-old man and the employee did not survive multiple gunshot wounds. They were pronounced dead on the scene.
A armed security guard nearby heard the gunshots and confronted the surviving shooter. The two exchanged gunfire inside the bar and both the security guard and the 22-year-old shooter suffered gunshot wounds.
The suspect, now wounded and still armed, ran from the bar into the crowds of families holding the hands of children and pushing baby carriages along the wooden sidewalks of old town in the chilly night air. He was immediately taken into custody by police.
The arrested man, who has not been identified, was taken to a hospital for treatment. The security guard was also treated at the hospital.
Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators responded to interview witnesses and gather evidence. Two guns were recovered at the scene.
Ray and Diane Correia of Roseville watched the debacle unfold from the second-floor La Terraza restaurant across the street from Sports Corner. First, they heard the sounds of gunfire. Then three policemen came riding down K Street on horses, guns drawn. Two police cars also arrived less than 30 seconds later. Then two men, both suffering from gunshot wounds, came running out of the bar onto K Street. Both eventually collapsed. Then a man the Correias' identified as the shooter came out of the bar, saw all the police, and surrendered. He was immediately taken into the patrol car.
"I've never seen anything quite as impressive as the way the police got there and took charge immediately," said Ray Correia. "Those officers on horses coming down the street with their guns drawn was awesome."
"Why people carry guns in a crowded area is beyond me," Correia added. "That's not who we area. It's too bad that that element can ruin it for everybody."
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