Family’s Car Riddled With Bullets As They Drive Away From Tracy’s West Valley Mall

TRACY (CBS13) — Bullets flew and deed a family’s car arsenic they were leaving the West Valley Mall successful Tracy.

All 5 radical wrong escaped unharmed. The operator is an expectant mother.

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Now, the household is seeking the public’s assistance tracking down the suspects.

Makayla Johnson showed the shattered solid and riddled framework of her car aft it was deed astatine slightest 4 times by bullets.

“So erstwhile the drivers came up, they started shooting from the back, they deed this model twice,” Johnson said portion showing the damage. “It was truly shocking. It was conscionable nerve-racking. Like it was thing that I wouldn’t privation connected my worst enemy.”

Johnson’s 13-, 14- and 19-year-old brothers, and her fellow were successful the car with her. She is besides 3 months pregnant.

“It’s scary because, you know, I’ve ne'er looked astatine it from a parent’s position until now, and present I person a babe coming and what is my babe going to do?” Johnson said.

Johnson recounted arsenic her household was leaving West Valley Mall Saturday evening, they were stared-down by a radical of boys.

Johnson past noticed a conveyance tailgating her arsenic she drove distant from the mall. That car drove on broadside her and idiosyncratic wrong started firing astatine them.

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“It’s conscionable reckless, and radical are conscionable losing their lives for what?” Johnson said. “I mean, everyone successful that car had thing going for them, oregon has thing going for them.”

Mercedes Bartlow is Johnson’s step-mother and parent of the 13- and 14-year-old boys who were riding with Johnson successful the car.

“They were shooting to termination my kids,” Bartlow said.

She says she asked investigators for surveillance video of the fishy conveyance and says constabulary told her they person not recovered immoderate truthful far.

“There needs to beryllium cameras from the wrong to the outside,” Bartlow said. “Had determination been cameras, we would person immoderate radical successful custody close now.”

A telephone to West Valley Mall was not instantly returned.

“I’d overmuch alternatively beryllium paying for a car past paying, you know, for a funeral, oregon paying for a infirmary bill,” Johnson said.

A household travel to the promenade turned into a weapon unit endurance story. Now, a hunt is underway for the suspects.

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Tracy constabulary person not released immoderate fishy oregon conveyance descriptions truthful far.

Steve Large