Shooting on Alisal Street
we begin tonight with an unusual shooting in salinas.. good evening i’m jake reiner it happened on the 700 block of east alisal… police say around 9:15 tonight they responded to shots fired…when they got to the scene the victim was not there…they say someone took the 18-year-old to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the arminvestigators found a b-b gun at the scene which the victim later confessed he had been committing armed robberies in the area…police say that the person who shot the victim shot him out of self defense because he was being robbed…the person who fired the gun ran away… tonight the vicitm of a deadly drive-by shooting in watsonville is identified good evening i’m jake reiner. police say at least four detectives cancelled their holiday vacation plans, to work on the investigation today starting as early as 8 this morning.. police say 24-year-old ivan avila from santa cruz.. was shot around 11 friday morning at callahan park in watsonville. they say a second victim was shot at but not hit. investigators say it is to early to tell whether this was a retaliation shooting for the 15-year-old gang member who was shot and killed on airport boulevard just before thanksgiving. however they do believe it is gang motivated as police say avila was an ex-gang member this makes it the city’s ninth homicide of the year. the watsonville police department is busy investigating another shooting that happened on front street just before 8 this morning. police say 2 suspects approached a 20-year-old man by breaking one of the windows of his home. the victim chased both of them down the street.. one of the suspects wearing a skull mask shot a round