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Unexplained Fourth of July Drive-By Shooting

By Neil Shous, Esq.

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Last Sunday night, as people were shooting off fireworks at Collingwood and Matson Streets in Sacramento, California celebrating the fourth of July, two people were shot during a drive-by shooting. Both victims were taken to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries. Sacramento police don?t know what prompted the shooting, as there hadn?t been a prior altercation. The shooters remain unidentified. If police find and arrest the suspects, prosecutors have a few options. They can charge the defendants with Penal Code 12034 PC California?s drive-by shooting law, with attempted murder (if the prosecution can prove that the shooters had the ?specific intent to kill? the victims), with Penal Code 246 PC California?s law against shooting at an inhabited dwelling (if the victims were standing outside a home), and/or with Penal Code 246...continue to full post

Full post as published by California Criminal Defense Blog on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).

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