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Gunfire, screams and terror: Witnesses describe mass shooting in downtown Sacramento

Leticia Harris, center, whose husband Sergio Harris was killed in the mass shooting in downtown Sacramento early Sunday morning, April 3, 2022, speaks Sunday morning with Sacramento police detective Konrad VonSchoech, left, while his mother Pamela Harris sobs.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Alexandra Arellano was working as a bottle girl at El Santo Ultra Lounge, near the corner of K and 10th streets in downtown Sacramento on Saturday night. With the club closing at 2 a.m., people were pouring out of the club and onto the street.

Arellano was about to walk outside when she heard one gunshot and then heard “around like 30 or 50 rounds being shot.”

“After that, everybody started panicking,” she said. People began running back into the El Santo.

When the shooting ended, six

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