SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento police said Wednesday that it appears that at least five shooters fired guns during Sunday’s massacre in downtown, which killed six people and injured 12.
Officials are still trying to determine the motive for the violence but said in a statement, “it is increasingly clear that gang violence is at the center of this tragedy. While we cannot at this time elaborate on the precise gang affiliation of individuals involved, gangs and gang violence are inseparable from the events that drove these shootings.”
Police on Tuesday announced two arrests, including one man with a long rap sheet who is currently hospitalized with bullet wounds. That man, Smiley Martin, 27, will be booked at Sacramento County Main Jail on suspicion of “possession of a firearm by a prohibitive person and possession of a machine gun” as soon as his medical treatments are complete, police said.
