Condition of Man Shot at High School Improves
The condition of a 24-year-old man who was wounded by suspected gang members in a school parking lot after a pick-up basketball game was upgraded from critical to guarded Sunday night, a hospital official said.
Winulfo Meza, whose 31-year-old brother, Mauro, was shot to death Thursday after the game, is being treated at UCI Medical Center in Orange.
Two other family members were also injured but have been released by the hospital.
Police are continuing the investigation.
Meanwhile, the Meza family is struggling to raise money to send Mauro Meza’s body to Mexico for burial. The victim was a nursery driver and father of three. The Orange County coroner’s office has released his body to MacDougall Mortuary in Santa Ana.
Winulfo and Mauro Meza and seven companions had just left the basketball court at Santa Ana High School when the shooting occurred Thursday evening.
They had been playing a pickup game after work and decided to leave after a group, apparently gang members, began taunting them, police said.
Members of the group then blocked their departure and sprayed bullets into a van driven by Mauro Meza, police said.
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