Boy, 13, Critically Hurt in Shooting

A 13-year-old Fillmore boy was critically wounded Thursday night after being shot in the head, according to witnesses and sheriff’s deputies.

Rodrigo Reynozo collapsed on a sidewalk in the 400 block of 5th Street in Fillmore about 7 p.m. Nearby residents called police and rushed to help him.

“He was hit in the head and he was bleeding. We ran and brought out rags to put where it was bleeding,” said a 17-year-old witness whose family reported the shooting to police.

Rodrigo was treated by paramedics and taken to Santa Paula Memorial Hospital, then transferred to Ventura County Medical Center in guarded condition, a nursing supervisor said.

Detectives, who arrived to investigate the shooting about 9 p.m., had not yet determined whether the shooting was criminal or accidental, sheriff’s officials said. No arrests had been made.

Rodrigo’s brother, 14-year-old Efrain Reynozo, was standing a block away when he heard sirens and ran to the scene to find his brother lying unconscious on the ground.

Efrain said his brother, who has friends on 5th Street, often spends time there. He said there have been other shootings in the neighborhood.

“This kind of thing happens all the time, mostly in the night,” he said.

Efrain said he did not know what his brother had been doing Thursday night.