Santa Ana : Suspects Sought After 1 Shot Dead, 2 Wounded
Police continued their search for suspects Sunday after a Santa Ana man was killed and two of his friends were wounded early Saturday in what investigators classified as a gang-related shooting.
Sgt. Bob Clark said the shooting took place at 1:30 a.m. in a convenience store’s parking lot at the corner of Warner Avenue and Pacific Street. Three young men in a car pulled up next to another car and opened fire with a semiautomatic assault rifle.
Mark Anthony Brooks, 19, was shot once in the head and died instantly, police said. Michael Serrano, who was at the wheel of the car, was shot in the chest. A second passenger, Johnny Guerrero, 20, was shot once in the right buttock.
Serrano was in stable condition and Guerrero in good condition at Coastal Communities Hospital. Both are from Santa Ana.
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