Homicide detectives face huge challenges on Sacramento shooting. Here’s what we know
by Richard Winton and Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times
Apr 14, 2022
4 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After naming and securing two suspects, Sacramento police announced Tuesday they were looking for a third person thought to be involved in the capital city’s worst gun violence ever — a shooting that killed six and injured 12 people early last week.
Despite those developments, authorities face a monumental task in resolving this case — filing charges and prosecuting those responsible. Here’s why:
The crime scene is vast, and complicated
There were actually three different crime scenes, a block from California’s Capitol, spread out over 100 yards. When police arrived in the early hours of April 3, they found six bodies and twice as many injured people amid a dispersed crowd of
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