SACRAMENTO, Calif (AP) — Six people were killed and 12 injured in a mass shooting early Sunday as bars and nightclubs were closing in downtown Sacramento and police in California’s state capital were searching for at least one suspect.
Highlights
- NEW: At least six people were killed and 12 injured in a mass shooting early Sunday morning in Sacramento.
- NEW: Police recovered “at least one firearm’s from the scene, a police statement said.
- Video shows people running through the street amid the sound of rapid gunfire in the city of about 525,000 people located 75 miles (120 kilometers) from San Francisco.
- It was the second mass shooting in Sacramento in the last five weeks after a father killed his three daughters, a chaperone and himself in a church during a weekly supervised visitation.
- Mayor Darrell Steinberg decries rising gun violence at a news conference and said city officials would support the victims.