Mar 31, 2008 10:20 am US/Pacific
Richmond Church Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 4 Injured
RICHMOND (CBS 5 / KCBS / AP / BCN) ―
One man was killed and four others injured in a shooting in front of a church that was hosting a food service program for the homeless.
Richmond Police Lt. Mark Gagan said the drive-by shooting occurred at 7:27 a.m. Sunday outside the Church of the Living God in the 400 block of Florida Avenue in the city's Santa Fe neighborhood. It happened as a group of volunteers were bringing people off of the street to feed them.
Police said the shots were fired from a red Chevy pickup truck and they believe at least three of the five men shot weren't the intended targets, but were hit in a crossfire.
The truck's occupant, described as a black man wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, fired multiple rounds at the group, striking five people.
The slain man, who was homeless, was identified as Jimmy Carter. Gagan said three others were seriously injured and one was listed in critical condition.
Richmond investigators said Monday that they believe the shooting was probably connected to another shooting that took place one block away minutes earlier.
However, no motive for the shooting was known and the suspect and vehicle were still outstanding, Gagan said.
"It's pretty brazen and pretty disturbing, because the person who was killed was standing in front of a church on a Sunday morning," Gagan explained. "It's one of those crimes that really makes people wonder why it happened, and wonder what the threat is to the general public. So we're really trying to find out what the motive was."
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