And a Mass Shooting Too

The weekend was very social - social, social, social! I felt I had visited every corner of the city of Sacramento, and all the suburbs. But one place I didn't visit was downtown, and maybe that's just as well. I missed the mass shooting.

Sunday evening, about 18 hours after the shooting, I detoured downtown and passed through the intersection of 10th and J Streets, just one block from the shooting site. Hard to get closer. The woman at the far left of this photo was wearing a sweatshirt labeled "Police Chaplain."

@franceswangtv Horrible news out of #Sacramento #California… 18 hurt, 6 killed in a #downtown #massshooting ♬ original sound - Frances Wang

It's going to take them a long time to figure this out. At least 100 shots. There were two concerts in the immediate vicinity that evening. Both let out by midnight, but some attendees no doubt went the bars in the immediate area. Even at 2 a.m., hundreds of people were on the streets. This event started with some kind of brawl. Then the weaponry came out. Hundreds of people in a dark glassy urban street canyon, with many bullets. Reconstructing events will be a nightmare for detectives. But they are reporting one arrest today, though.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento police have arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with Sunday’s deadly mass shooting, the city's police chief confirmed.

Dandrae Martin was taken into custody and booked on charges of assault with a firearm and being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, police Chief Kathy Lester told KCRA 3’s Ty Steele in an exclusive interview Monday morning.

“Right now that’s really all we’re able to share about him," she said. "As you know this is a complex investigation and we’re looking for multiple suspects and so we’re currently working to identify what his role was the night of the shooting."

...Lester said Monday that police now know that at least three buildings and three cars were hit by gunfire and more than 100 bullet casings were recovered from the scene.

"So we know that there were a lot of shots fired that night and hence the complexity of the investigation," Lester said.

She said police are still searching for multiple shooters. 9The coroner’s office in Sacramento County identified the three men and three women who were killed on Monday as:

Johntaya Alexander, 21

Melinda Davis, 57

Sergio Harris, 38

Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32

Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21

DeVazia Turner, 29