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WINTON, Calif (KSEE/KGPE) - A late-night enactment went incorrect aft 3 teenagers were shot, 1 of them not surviving their injuries, the Merced County Sheriff's Office says.
Just aft midnight Sunday, deputies responded to the 7300 artifact of Gertrude Avenue, adjacent Lea Court, for a study of respective radical who had been shot.
They accidental they arrived to find 3 victims with gunshot wounds scattered astir the area.
Responding deputies accidental a 17-year-old lad from Winton sustained a gunshot coiled to the thigh and was critically injured. They applied a tourniquet and provided different life-saving measures until EMS arrived to transport him.
Investigators accidental helium was expected to beryllium airlifted, however, owed to his unstable condition, helium was alternatively taken to an country infirmary wherever helium died.
Two further victims, a 17-year-old lad and a 17-year-old girl, besides suffered gunshot wounds to their legs, according to deputies.
The sheriff's bureau says their wounds were non-life-threatening and they were transported to a section hospital, wherever they are reported to beryllium successful unchangeable condition.
Deputies accidental the victims did not cognize each different anterior to attending the party.
They besides accidental witnesses reported that the suspects drove by successful what appeared to beryllium a achromatic sedan, yelling gang-related slurs, and opened occurrence connected a radical extracurricular the home.
At this time, nary suspects oregon persons of involvement person been identified.
Detectives proceed to canvass the country for further grounds and surveillance video, arsenic the probe remains ongoing.
Anyone with accusation regarding this incidental is urged to interaction the Merced County Sheriff’s Office astatine 209-385-7445.
