Deputies Investigating 2 Separate Homicides Near Stockton Over Labor Day Weekend

STOCKTON (CBS13) — Detectives are asking for the public’s assistance successful investigating 2 abstracted homicides that happened adjacent Stockton implicit Labor Day weekend.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office says the archetypal 1 happened conscionable earlier 5 a.m. Sunday on the 1800 artifact of South Mariposa Road. Deputies responded to the country to analyse a imaginable drive-by shooting and recovered 33-year-old Fernando Ortiz Jr. had been changeable respective times.

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Ortiz was soon pronounced dormant astatine the scene. A achromatic sedan was seen successful the country astatine the clip of the shooting, but nary different details astir immoderate imaginable suspects person been released.

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Deputies accidental the adjacent shooing happened Monday day on the 900 artifact of Flower Street. Here, 33-year-old Jose Antonio Gonzales was recovered changeable and was pronounced dormant aft being taken to the hospital.

It’s unclear what led up to the Flower Street shooting. No fishy accusation has been released successful this incidental arsenic well.

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Detectives enactment that some shootings are inactive progressive investigations. Anyone with accusation applicable to the probe is urged to telephone detectives astatine (209) 468-4425.