The Sacramento massacre leaves 6 dead and 12 wounded. The latest figure comes from local police, who have so far made no arrests over an asyetunresolved fact: a lone man (contrary to the one that had been leaked in the previous hours) was shot dead for no reason. It all started just after 2 a.m. in a downtown area near the Golden 1 Arena, where the Kings Nba basketball team plays, not far from Parliament. It’s an area full of restaurants, bars and clubs that close at this precise time: many people were on the streets ready to go home. A fight breaks out in front of a stick, one person falls to the ground injured and shortly after several shots are heard while people run away screaming in panic.
The shooting of the El Santo restaurant
This fact is documented by a video that circulated on social networks in the first hours after the incident. But there’s no certainty it’s related to the shooting. According to local media reports, witnesses saw a man in a car opening fire on the crowd near the El Santo restaurant. Then he ran away. According to witness statements, up to 50 shots could be heard. “It was horrific,” Berry Accius, a local activist who arrived minutes after the shooting, told a local TV station, according to Ansa news agency. “I saw victims covered in blood, people screaming and crying, others asking where their brothers were, or mothers we were looking for were looking for their children,” he continued.
“I also saw a girl shouting, ‘You killed my sister’.” Pamela Harris tearfully shared that her daughter called her at 2.15am to say her brother Sergio, 38, had been shot dead outside a nightclub. “I almost fainted,” said the woman, who is still awaiting official confirmation. Repubblica is releasing today the testimony of Kelsey Schar, 18, who was on the fourth floor of the Citizen Hotel overlooking that street: “I heard the gunshots, I looked down and there was a man running and shooting.” The 50 shots heard indicate the use of an automatic rifle.
The certificates
The voices of other witnesses, which run in a continuous loop on all televisions, describe dramatic and chaotic scenes: “A girl lay on the floor covered in blood and complained. She was shot in the legs and security guards from a nightclub came to help her, using napkins to stop the bleeding, says Madalyn Woodard, 17. Kay Harris, 32, instead speaks of a “senseless act. I was woken up by my sisterinlaw. He told me that my brother Sergio, 38, was dead. They were in a place called El Santo.
“The number of dead and injured is difficult to understand. We await more information to find out what happened in this tragic accident,” Mayor Darrell Steinberg said. Who said they were ready to support any action to reduce “the growing gun violence in our city, state and nation? What we do know so far is that another mass shooting has taken place. Leaving behind families with loved ones dead, multiple injured and a grieving community, reiterated California Governor Gavin Newsom. “The rise in gun violence remains a crisis in our country. We must decide to put an end to this slaughter», his appeal.
#BREAK: New video of shooting in downtown Sacramento, California appears to capture fully automatic gunfire. Up to 6 deaths have been reported at the moment. pic.twitter.com/oHUFea5vF6
UA News (@UrgentAlertNews) April 3, 2022
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