On what's going on, it's getting dangerous.
Tonight, two violent incidents in North
Sacramento lead the community on Edge.
And they just happened miles from each other.
Take a look. The first happened around
10:30 this morning near El Camino Blvd.
And it led to a shooting involving police.
Another case forced an elementary
school to go on lockdown near Norwood
and Rio Linda Blvd. Good evening.
We are tracking it all tonight.
I'm Chris Thomas.
I'm Laura painter.
Thank you for joining us tonight.
We start with live team coverage, ABC
10s. Devon truly has community
reaction to the incident that prompted a
lockdown at a nearby elementary school.
But first ABC 10s Roxanne alias is live
where a person was shot by police.
So Roxanne, exactly what happened?
Chris and Laura, there are still
several police officers here on
scene leading the investigation.
They're asking community
members for surveillance video,
for video that you may have taken
with your cell phone that maybe
caught the incident right now,
right up the road.
If you can see this incident happened
right there at Candelier and El Camino,
Community members here tell
me they're saddened to see
yet another shooting happened
here in their community.
The North Sacramento community
is concerned after police shot a
man near Rio Linda and El Camino.
It's scary, but like, Sacramento is
really for violence and it's really
scary because we have kids and
kids grow around this and they see
the stuff and they think it's OK.
They're seeing it going on.
The incident that ended here this
morning after a car was reported
stolen yesterday afternoon.
Fast forward to today in the area of
El Camino and cantilever, one of our
officers observed that carjacked vehicle.
To be parked on the curb as our officer
made contact with that carjacked vehicle,
there was a suspect inside of that vehicle.
Sacramento police say the man was
noncompliant and there was a struggle
between the man and the officer.
At one point, the officer used a Taser,
but it was ineffective.
The suspect was able to gain access
to the driver seat of that carjacked
vehicle and attempted to flee the scene.
When the suspect fled the scene
there was a collision involving
one of our officers on foot.
That officer sustained moderate injuries
and was transported to the hospital.
At the same time of the collision,
police say two officers
discharged their weapons.
Their suspect was then found at an aerial
hospital with at least one gunshot wound.
He has non life threatening injuries.
Edwin Lopez, who lives and works in the area,
says it's sad to see situations like
these happening in his neighborhood.
It's normal to me that they
had shut the area down because
there's lots of shootings
over here in this area
for Roberts. She'd like for her
community to work with police
and make it feel safe again.
I feel like my community,
our black community, already takes
a lot when it comes to officers.
I feel like not all officers are
bad and I feel like we shouldn't
take it out on everybody.
I feel like everybody should
have love towards each other.
Investigators are trying to figure
out right now if that suspect was
armed and if that was the same person
that carjacked the car yesterday,
he will be facing charges.
But that all just depends on
where this investigation leads.
Chris, Laura, back to
you. Now, we do want to reiterate the
suspect is in custody and police believe
there are no other suspects out there.
But police are also asking neighbors for
any surveillance video they might have.
Roxanne, thank you.
Went out to a second case just blocks away,
forcing an elementary school to go on
lockdown for about 10 minutes or so.
But it's sparking a bigger,
community wide discussion
about the need for change.
ABC's Devin Truby is live tonight and Devin
you had a chance to speak to parents.
I did, Chris and Laura,
and this was certainly not the
scene those parents expected to be
bringing their kids to school to.
The investigation still ongoing 7
hours later with detectives on scene.
As you can see, the road also
still clear and caution tape was
seen by kids while they were out
at recess today playing that's a
powerful image and also a signal
to the community that they need to
invest now for better neighborhoods.
This was not the scene Juanita
Robledo wanted to walk her
preschool student through.
That was a safe community.
But his being dangerous,
I don't know what's going on.
I'm scared already to even
take my daughter to school.
Well what that was something
Tomas United as a community
member and parent is troubled
by the increase in violence that
is happening everywhere and that
it's happening in their community.
It's a great need for an increased
community based services especially
in in minority neighborhoods,
neighborhoods that.
Have been historically neglected.
The violence is because people
and kids don't have things to do.
S Natomas United and Gardenland
Northgate Neighborhood Association
are both in agreement that they need
community policing and more presence.
But the answer is in community programs
and services, especially for youth.
The greenhouse that and it's a
small program and it engages youth,
but it's not really like gain
prevention or gun prevention and then
we have Stanford settlement that.
Gate is used, but again,
they're small programs and we need
programs that are larger and more in depth.
We met with Marbella
at the site of this mural as a
symbol of hope for the future.
That one day a parking lot will be
a community gathering spot while
they strive for community pride.
The biggest take away from these
conversations today is they want the
community to move away from this attitude of,
oh, this has happened again and more
towards Community pride, Chris, Laura,
they're asking for community centers
to be open and for Youth Services.
That's the solution they believe here.
And Devin, I understand the Neighborhood
Association has even applied for
grant funding to try and help clean
up the area and host family events
is something we're going to be
tracking in the days and weeks ahead.
Thank you, Devin.