California Shooting Kills 2, Injures 2, Including Officer
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A gunman killed two men, wounded a woman and injured a California Highway Patrol officer after he opened fire at homes, a car, two gas stations and a winery in this small lakeside Northern California town before being arrested, authorities said.
Alan Ashmore, 61, also may have started a small fire as he fled law enforcement Monday in the lakeside community, Lake County Sheriff Brian Martin said, AP reported.
The motive for the attacks remained a mystery.
“We don’t know whether the shootings were all targeted, if they were random or if they were a combination,” Martin said.
Lake County District Attorney Don Anderson told San Francisco’s KPIX-TV that “I think he was almost targeting everybody, everybody he had a grudge with and also random citizens.”
The attacks began shortly before 11:30 a.m. and stretched over several miles as Ashmore drove from place to place and then tried to flee sheriff’s deputies, authorities said.
The gunman first fired at several homes and a car, killing a man in a house and another in the car. He then allegedly wounded a woman in the foot and shot an arriving California Highway Patrol officer. The officer’s body armor protected him, and he wasn’t badly injured, Martin said.
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