PITTSBURG — A person was arrested and one other man and a girl had been being sought in reference to the deadly capturing of a convenience-store clerk Wednesday night time, police mentioned.
In response to an announcement Thursday night, police mentioned officers responded to a house after a report of attainable gunshots within the 100 block of Bruno Avenue quickly after 9 p.m. Wednesday.
About forty minutes after officers arrived and commenced gathering info, they heard gunshots a couple of half-mile away within the 1000 block of Energy Avenue and discovered of a dispatcher’s name a couple of clerk shot at a retailer.
Different officers responded to the shop and located a clerk affected by at the least one gunshot wound. Regardless of officers’ life-saving efforts, the person was pronounced useless on the scene. Police recognized him as Abdul Raouf, 44, and mentioned the capturing was town’s first murder of the yr.
Police discovered that two Pittsburg residents, a 37-year-old man and a 34-year-old lady, had been concerned in a fracas on Bruno shortly earlier than somebody fired a handgun a number of instances into the air. There have been no reported accidents in that capturing, and the 2 fled.
Investigators later developed info that the 2 additionally fled after their involvement in a confrontation with retailer workers that led as much as the deadly capturing.
A 3rd man concerned within the confrontation, a 43-year-old Pittsburg man, was later detained at a Pittsburg residence. Police didn't disclose on what expenses he was arrested.
Police mentioned investigators have obtained warrants for the arrests of the lady and man and requested anybody with info on them to name Pittsburg police Det. Jonathan Elmore at 925-252-4875 or the division tip line at 925-252-4040.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.