Sacramento security guard fatally shoots one person, critically injures second
SACRAMENTO CA Aug 14 2021
An armed security guard fatally shot one person and critically wounded a second at an apartment complex police have reported.
Sacramento police say, around 3:30 a.m., they got a report that a security guard at a complex along the 2900 block of Ramona Avenue had shot at two subjects who appeared to be armed with a gun. The security guard was patrolling the complex at the time of the shooting.
The shooting happened at The Crossings apartments an off-campus student housing complex near Sacramento State.
“It’s kind of scary because no alert or anything went to no-one’s phone to see what was going on,” said resident Jana Alexander.
Both men who were shot left the area, but officers say that two people with gunshot wounds showed up at area hospital. One of those people, a man, was later pronounced dead.
Detectives now believe those two people who showed up at the hospital with gunshot wounds are related to the shooting at the Ramona Avenue apartment complex.
A family member of one of the two men involved says the teens are around 19-years-old and claims they were not armed. Instead, family claims the two were playing games on their cell phones.
“I’m 100% sure the security guard did it because he was afraid for his life,” said resident Imelda Martinez.
Police have responded to the apartment complex at least three times in the past few weeks for crimes. In July, officers responded to reports of a robbery and on a separate occasion an assault where the suspect was armed.
On August 7, police responded to the complex again for a felony assault where two suspects attacked a man.
According to Sacramento police, no arrests have been made in the August 7 assault.
Police have not said if they have located any firearms or witnesses that might have seen the incident.
The exact circumstances surrounding the shooting are still under investigation.
