The Sacramento County Coroner's office has identified the victim of a fatal south Sacramento car-to-car shooting Thursday that was the county's second such homicide in as many days.
Dutch Julius Adams, 20, of Sacramento, died Friday morning from injuries he sustained when he was shot Thursday evening near 47th Avenue and Franklin Boulevard, according to the coroner's office website.
Adams was reportedly sitting in the back seat of a vehicle that was shot at by occupants of another vehicle near that intersection, according to a Sacramento County Sheriff's Department news release.
Deputies responded to the area shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, after authorities received reports of shots being fired. About 30 minutes later, deputies were notified that a man, Adams, had been brought to a local hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.
Adams died the next morning, the coroner's office reported. Witnesses told deputies that the shooting occurred "after some confrontational looks were exchanged" between occupants of the two vehicles, the sheriff's department reported.
The suspect vehicle was described as a newer, silver Dodge Avenger with four to five occupants, the release states. Sheriff's investigators have yet to determine a motive in the shooting.
That slaying came a day after a 58-year-old man was shot on Highway 99 in what deputies described as an apparent road-rage attack.
Joe Curley Baker, 58, of Clermont, Fla., was shot in the lower back Wednesday afternoon while riding in a car traveling northbound on Highway 99 near Florin Road, sheriff's department spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos said.
Though Baker's wounds were not initially thought to be life-threatening, he died from them on Saturday afternoon, the coroner's office reported.
The driver of the car Baker was riding in told investigators she may have inadvertently cut off another motorist when she made a lane change, and that that vehicle began to tail her aggressively right before the shooting, Ramos said.
"All indications are it was completely random and precipitated by nothing other than road rage," Ramos said.
The driver was unable to provide a specific description of the suspect vehicle. Baker was visiting family in the Sacramento area, the sheriff's department reported.
That both homicides were car-to-car shootings can complicate investigation because detectives don't have an exact scene to work with and may have a harder time locating shell casings, Ramos said.
Anyone with information about either crime is asked to call the homicide bureau at (916) 874-5115 or Crime Alert at (916) 443-4357.
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