SACRAMENTO — It was a weekend of violence across Sacramento with police saying two of the deadly shootings stemmed from sideshows.
“You hear the cars rolling up and everything,” said Jessica Pickett, who lives near where one of the deadly sideshows occurred. “There’s like loud firecrackers.”
Pickett and her neighbor shared cell phone video that captured the massive street takeover on Seamist Drive in Sacramento.
“At some point, I heard someone scream,” Pickett said.
What started with cars doing donuts turned deadly. Police confirmed one man was shot and killed.
“A life is not worth losing over donuts in a car,” said Trina Lafuente, who also lives nearby.
She got the unwanted wake-up call at around 2 a.m. from the noisy action that the police broke up.
“They’re running inside the apartments and it’s frightening. You don’t know,” said Lafuente. “I have children.”
An hour later, police rushed to a second sideshow near Kelton Way and Main Avenue. It is there they learned two people were shot, one dying in the hospital and the other surviving.