Two police officers move cautiously through a tree-lined area toward an open field, one carrying a rifle, during a daytime search.
Vallejo police enter a homeless encampment after two people were shot on Aug. 11, 2025 in Vallejo, Calif. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo)

Vallejo police responded to a shooting that wounded two people in the White Slough homeless encampment Sunday afternoon, according to public records. 

Shortly before 4 p.m., first responders found a man in a wheelchair with at least one gunshot wound behind the Carl’s Jr. restaurant on Sonoma Boulevard, according to dispatch audio. A second victim, a woman, was found inside the encampment with a gunshot wound to the leg.

An ambulance is parked on a street near Sonoma Boulevard, flanked by two police SUVs, with an empty wheelchair positioned in the middle of the scene.
Both victims suffered injuries that were not life threatening, police spokesperson Sgt. Rashad Hollis said. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo)

Both victims suffered injuries that were not life threatening and were transported for medical treatment, Vallejo police spokesperson Sgt. Rashad Hollis said in an interview Monday.

Police reported the suspect fled westbound after the shooting, and that they planned to search three homeless encampments in the area, according to dispatch audio.

Several police officers walk through a dirt path lined with scattered belongings, as a man with a bicycle and another man stand nearby at an encampment.
Vallejo police have made no arrests in the shooting, according to department spokesperson Sgt. Rashad Hollis. (Geoffrey King / Open Vallejo)

Officers searched the area of White Slough for the suspect but did not locate them, according to dispatch audio and police records. Police have made no arrests in connection with the shooting, Hollis said.

On Memorial Day, a gunman shot three people inside the White Slough encampment, killing two men. U.S. Marshals arrested a suspect in that shooting nine days later in San Francisco.

Sarah Hopkins is an investigative reporter at Open Vallejo and a Report for America corps member.