A series of shootings occurred in eastern San Diego County on Friday night, killing one person and injuring three, police said.
A lone gunman was believed to have been driving around a large area before randomly shooting at groups of people who were outside, Fox 5 reported.
Multiple witnesses called 911 after the first two shootings and gave a detailed description of the suspect and his car. Police scoured the area looking for the gunman, who was found 90 minutes later parked on a street near the final attack.
Police arrested the driver, Jaime Gonzalez, 22, on suspicion of murder and attempted murder. Officers found a 9 mm semi-automatic ghost gun in the car.
“Officers ended up saturating the area and realized we had in essence an active shooter situation, someone that is going around and on a shooting spree,” San Diego Police Department Lt. Steve Shebloski told Fox 5. “We’re trying to dive in to find out what the motive is behind it, just what the motivation was. That’s going to take some time.”
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Two 15-year-old Hispanic boys were hit in the first attack and are expected to survive. In the second shooting, which occurred in the Bay Terraces neighborhood, a 32-year-old Hispanic man died after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds. A 34-year-old black man was also shot but is expected to survive his injuries.
The Hispanic man, whose identity has not yet been released, was shot multiple times throughout his body and was also stabbed, suffering catastrophic injuries, police said.
“We’re just glad that we had some really heads-up officers that were able to find this vehicle because we’re very confident this suspect was just going to continue to find random groups of people and just shoot throughout the night,” Shebloski said.
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Officers are searching for surveillance tapes that may have caught the shootings.
