At least five people were injured in shootings in Vallejo over the weekend, according to public records and law enforcement officials.
The California Highway Patrol assisted in two shootings on Friday, including responding to a shooting and subsequent car burglary, and airlifting another shooting victim to a local hospital. On Sunday evening, at least three individuals were treated at local hospitals with gunshot wounds, according to Vallejo police spokesperson Sgt. Rashad Hollis. No homicides have been reported related to these incidents, police said.
Just after 3 p.m. on Friday, the California Highway Patrol responded to a shooting on the westbound side of Interstate 80 at Redwood Street in Vallejo, according to dispatch audio and CHP spokesperson Sgt. Andrew Barclay. Officers discovered a man at the scene who had been shot in the abdomen. The victim was transported to a local hospital for treatment, Barclay said.
The shooting occurred after two vehicles collided on the highway, then pulled to the shoulder, Sgt. Barclay wrote in an email Monday. Two occupants allegedly exited one of the vehicles, assaulted the victim, and shot him. One of the suspects fled in the victim’s vehicle, a Mercedes van, while the other fled in his own.
Highway patrol officers briefly detained a man on I-80 whose white Mercedes matched the description of the victim’s vehicle, but he was “quickly released,” Barclay said. The victim’s vehicle was found abandoned in Vallejo around 6 p.m. Friday.
Police have made no arrests in the incident, according to Barclay.
Later that evening, police responded to a shooting in central Vallejo. Just before 7 p.m., the occupants of a red sedan and a white Corvette allegedly shot at each other near Sutter and Kentucky Streets, then fled north, according to dispatch audio and the Vallejo Police Department’s daily incident log. An officer radioed at approximately 6:58 p.m. to report that the driver of the red sedan had been found shot in the upper back in the 3000 block of Sonoma Boulevard.
At approximately 7:19 p.m., a radio dispatch captured the arrival of a CHP helicopter, which landed in the parking lot of Three Brothers Furniture on Sonoma Boulevard. Store employee Loretta Airoldi said in a phone interview Monday that first responders loaded the victim into the helicopter before it took off.
Just before 7 p.m. on Sunday, a caller reported that a bullet had grazed the side of her boyfriend’s head while he was washing his car in the Crest neighborhood of north Vallejo, according to dispatch audio. An officer who responded to the scene reported that the victim was alert and conscious, with the graze wound appearing to be his only injury. Hollis confirmed that the man’s injury was not life threatening.
Roughly 20 minutes after the reported shooting in the Crest, a dispatcher reported that a second gunshot victim had sought medical care at the Sutter Solano Medical Center, according to dispatch audio. That victim was later transferred to NorthBay Medical Center, according to dispatch audio.
A nurse from Sutter Solano reported to police that she saw someone toss a gun while she was on her way to work. Police located a gun near the hospital at approximately 7:50 p.m., on the 1700 block of Sereno Drive, and requested an American Canyon Police Department K-9 to search further.
Hollis did not provide additional details about the condition of the two other shooting victims.
