17-year-old shot and killed at party in Merced County identified

WINTON, Calif. (KFSN) -- The teen who was changeable and killed during a enactment successful Merced County implicit the play has been identified arsenic 17-year-old Carlos Ramirez Chaidez.

The Merced County Sheriff's Office says the shooting happened Sunday astatine midnight connected Gertrude Avenue adjacent North Winton Way successful Winton.

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When deputies arrived, they recovered Chaidez and 2 different radical with gunshot wounds.

Chaidez was changeable successful the thigh and had to person a tourniquet applied until paramedics arrived. He was taken to the hospital, wherever helium aboriginal died.

Witnesses accidental they heard gang-related slurs anterior to the shooting, and investigators judge the incidental whitethorn beryllium gang-related.

Anyone with accusation astir this shooting is asked to interaction the Merced County Sheriff's Office.