Sheriff's deputies are investigating the shooting of two people in a strip mall parking lot in south Sacramento County.
One victim was shot in the head, the other in the leg, said sheriff's Deputy Jason Ramos. Both men are expected to survive.
About 1:40 p.m., deputies responded to calls of 10-15 shots fired in the area of Savings Place, a short stretch of mostly strip malls off the 65th Street Expressway near Stockton Boulevard.
In a parking lot, they found two- to three dozen shell casings and pools of blood but no victims, Ramos said.
Twenty minutes later, officials at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center called authorities to report two gunshot wound victims had arrived in the emergency room, Ramos said.
Witnesses told deputies that after the shooting, three or four men were seen jumping into a small, red sedan that sped out of the parking lot, Ramos said. The victims likely were driven away in that car, he said.
One or two black men were seen running southeast out of the parking lot, Ramos said.
That parking lot was surrounded police tape two years ago this month, when 22-year-old Gia Huynh was shot execution-style while eating lunch at a Pho restaurant in that strip mall. Detectives believe it was a gang-related attack and the case remains unsolved.
Less than one-third of a mile away, Monique Nelson, 30, was shot to death in December of that year when a gun battle erupted inside a Stockton Boulevard barbershop and spilled into the parking lot. One of the alleged shooters, 20-year-old Marvion Barksdale, also was killed.
Six suspects have been arrested in the case, which also was gang-related.
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