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Police block off the doorway to Antioch’s Park Ridge neighborhood off Canada Valley Street at Pinnacle Valley Method and Vista Grande Drive north to Palomino Method for an unknown incident on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022.
ANTIOCH — A 76-year-old girl died late Tuesday evening after an obvious drive-by taking pictures on a metropolis road, authorities mentioned.
Dispatchers obtained a name at 7:02 p.m. Tuesday from a 29-year-old driver asking for assist after his passenger, the girl, appeared to have bother respiration, police mentioned.
Police responded alongside firefighters and paramedics close to Canada Valley Street by Pinnacle View and Mountain Ridge methods within the metropolis’s Park Ridge neighborhood, and located the driving force’s automobile.
When paramedics and officers started offering life-saving measures, they discovered the lady had suffered a gunshot wound to her again.
The lady was taken to a hospital, the place she was pronounced useless. The driving force was not harm, police mentioned.
Based on investigators who responded to the scene, the driving force and passenger appeared to have been shot at by an individual in an unknown automobile driving alongside Canada Valley Street.
Police mentioned they might not launch extra data in what they known as an energetic investigation, however used social media Wednesday night to say the photographs had been probably fired from a automobile close to Canada Valley and Laurel roads.
Accordingly, investigators requested that close by residents or drivers with surveillance or sprint cameras verify their gadgets’ recorded footage from between 6:50 to 7:10 p.m. Tuesday for indicators of the automobile.
On the scene Tuesday evening, police blocked off the highway, a fundamental thoroughfare, from Vista Grande Drive to Palomino Method, with warning tape and nobody was allowed to enter the neighborhood.
Anybody with data could name Antioch police Det. Invoice Whitaker at 925-779-6890 or e-mail wwhitaker@antiochca.gov, name Antioch police’s non-emergency line at 925-778-2441, or ship nameless suggestions or different data by texting 274637 (CRIMES) with the key phrase ANTIOCH and referencing case No. 22-000958.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.