UPDATE: Authorities have identified and arrested 26-year-old Dandrea Martin in connection with the Sacramento Mass Shooting that resulted in the deaths of 6 people.
Sacramento police have called Martin a “related suspect,” however his role in the shooting is not clear.
Marin was booked on charges of assault and illegal firearm possession.
According to a police report, the arrest was made after the SWAT team and detectives served search warrants at several different homes. During which, at least one handgun was recovered.
Police stated that they found 100 casings at the scene, and multiple shooters were involved.
Aguayo News Previously Reported:
Police in California are searching for at least one suspect after a mass shooting took place early Sunday morning in downtown Sacramento.
Police have confirmed that 6 people were killed and 10 were transported to area hospitals.
Kathy Lester, the Sacramento Police Chief said at a news conference that police were patrolling the area at about 2 a.m. when they heard gunfire erupt. When they arrived at the scene, they found a large crowd gathered on the street and six people dead. Another 10 either took themselves or were transported to hospitals. No information was given on their conditions.
Authorities say there is a possibility that more than one suspect was involved and that it is a ‘very complex scene.’ They are asking that any witnesses, anyone with any information or recordings of the shooting contact the police.
After shooting took place, a video was posted to Twitter. In the video you could hear rapid gunfire while people in the street are fighting. Another Video shows people running in the streets and multiple ambulances arrive to the scene.
The shooting took place in an area that is packed with restaurants and bars, including the London nightclub. Residents have been asked to avoid the area.
The streets around the London Club have been closed and taped off by police.
One witness described the scene to the AP shortly after the shooting,
“The first thing I saw was like victims. I saw a young girl with a whole bunch of blood in her body, a girl taking off glass from her, a young girl screaming saying, ‘They killed my sister.’ A mother running up, ‘Where’s my son, has my son been shot?’“
California, which is run by Democrat Governor Gavin Newsome has one of the highest crime rates in the country. The murder rate in California spiked by 30% in 2020 and, according to crime statistics, continues to rise in 2021 and 2022.
According to the latest data from the State of California Department of Justice in 2020 there were 173,864 Violent Crimes, 2,202 Homicides, 13,439 Rapes, and 44,684 Robberies.
California’s murder rate climbed 30% from 2020 to 2021 and continues to rise in 2022.
As for the city of Sacramento, which is run by Democrat Mayor Darrell Steinberg, the crime statistics of the City of Sacramento’s monthly chief report for November 2021 indicates Crime is on the rise in the city.
- Number of homicides: 57
- Highest amount since the 59 homicides in 2016
- Number of victims shot: 240
- 25% increase over 2020
- Total number of firearms seized: 1,512
- 25% more than 2020
- Number of incidents involving an officer being assaulted or resisted: 690
- Calls for service- mental health-related: 12,478
- Sacramento PD averaged 37.5 mental health-related calls for service every day
- Number of fatal traffic collisions: 53
- Highest amount since at least 1990
- Number of injury collisions: Over 2,200
- Median response time to emergency calls for service: 10:48 minutes
- 8.9% increase over 2020
California has the strictest gun laws in the nation. The state also has the most robust system in the country for taking firearms away from people who are not allowed to have them.
California is also the first state in the country to create a database identifying people who legally purchased guns but were subsequently deemed too dangerous to be armed.
California State Attorney General . Rob Bonta has come under fire as of late and has become known to many in California as an “anticop politician”
In fact one billboard in the state says,
“How can someone who cares more about criminals’ rights than victims’ rights, and is routinely at odds with law enforcement, serve as our state’s top cop? It’s time for a change.”
According to a recent UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll, two thirds of registered voters in California say crime is a major problem, with more than half saying Governor Newsom is doing a poor job on public safety.
However these same voters are approving measures like Proposition 47, a voter-approved ballot measure that Newsom supported which lowers felony drug and theft offenses to misdemeanors and says that theft under $950 cannot be prosecuted.
Voters also approved Proposition 57, a measure that allows prisoners to be released earlier then their assigned sentences.
Republican politicians are demanding an end to the liberal policies that are viewed as soft on crime and blamed for the spiking crime in the state.
Assembly Member Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin), who is running for Congress in Sacramento called Proposition 47 a “failed policy” that has inflicted “disastrous consequences” on Californians.
According to the L.A. Times, Kiley along with more than 12 other Republican legislators have introduced Assembly Bill 1599 to repeal the law.
“I believe Californians are fed up with this sort of lawlessness,” Kiley said. “They are ready to have a rational public safety policy again.”
