The Sacramento County Coroner's office has released the name of a teenager shot to death last night in Rancho Cordova.
Jorden Benedict, 19, of Rancho Cordova was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday night.
Benedict was shot about 9 p.m. Tuesday not far from W.E. Mitchell Middle School in Rancho Cordova. Police found him in the street next to the sidewalk on Campana Way east of Biscay Way, said Sacramento County sheriff's Deputy Jason Ramos, who also is a spokesman for Rancho Cordova police.
Benedict had suffered a gunshot wound to his upper body, Ramos said.
Few details about the shooting were available today. Witnesses did report seeing a dark-colored vehicle drive away from the area of the shooting, Ramos said, though it was not clear how many people were in the car or who they were.
Detectives do not know the motive for the shooting, Ramos said.
Efforts by The Bee to reach Benedict's family today have not been successful.
Benedict was on probation after pleading no contest in 2010 to a second-degree robbery charge, a felony offense for which he was sentenced to a year in jail, according to Sacramento Superior Court records online. A felony assault with a deadly weapon charge associated with that case was dismissed, records show.
At that time, a misdemeanor petty theft charge also was dismissed, according to the online records.
This post was updated by Bee staff writer Kim Minugh.
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