At least one gunman wielding a rifle wounded two people at a shopping center hours after a driver was killed in a Vallejo intersection on Friday afternoon, capping a chaotic 24 hours in the city already strained by fireworks and fires.
The fatal shooting occurred around midday at the intersection of Tennessee and Humboldt Streets, according to dispatch audio. Hours later, evidence placards remained scattered near a light gray Mazda with a blown-out rear passenger window and a bullet hole in the windshield. The driver was shot once in the head, according to police. The incident marks Vallejo’s 10th homicide of 2024.
Vallejo police arrived and began CPR within minutes, according to dispatch traffic. Less than two minutes later, an officer indicated that the coroner would likely be required. The victim clung to life and was transported to Kaiser hospital, where he died soon after, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
Hours after the fatal shooting, a man and a juvenile male walked into Kaiser with injuries that were not life-threatening, following a shooting near a barbershop in the Vallejo Plaza Shopping Center, according to Vallejo Police spokesperson Sgt. Rashad Hollis. The injuries included “at least one gunshot,” he said.
Police arrested a man who accompanied the victims to the hospital while allegedly armed with a gun, according to Hollis.
“There was an armed individual who was taken into custody without incident,” Hollis said. The man can be heard protesting his arrest in dispatch audio. “Come on, dog, all my family just got shot,” the man told police.
No other arrests have occurred in either shooting, Hollis said, adding that police are “still in the preliminary stages” of both investigations.
