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LE GRAND, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Three suspects are successful custody, including 2 who were changeable by Merced County Sheriff's deputies, pursuing an speech of gunfire aboriginal Thursday greeting successful the tiny municipality of Le Grand.
According to investigators with the sheriff's office, those deputies were called retired to an flat gathering adjacent the intersection of Washington Street and Jefferson Street astir 2:10 a.m. for a study of a location invasion.
The caller stated determination were aggregate radical on-site with guns.
When deputies arrived and approached the building, they accidental the suspects started shooting astatine them.
"At that time, our deputies returned fire, and 2 of the suspects were hit," said Capt. Aaron Rosenberg with the Merced County Sheriff's Office.
Rosenberg says the 3 suspects, including the 2 unidentified ones shot, and 35-year-old Roman Naranjo of Le Grand, past retreated backmost wrong the gathering earlier they yet surrendered.
Rosenberg says the 2 who were changeable are successful the infirmary and are successful unchangeable condition. Naranjo has been booked into the Merced County Jail.
"Thankfully, cipher other was injured successful this incident. None of the deputies were injured, and nary of the radical surviving astatine the residence were injured arsenic well," helium said.
Still, for those who unrecorded successful the tiny municipality of 1,773, it's an incidental that has near them concerned.
"It utilized to beryllium a nice, quiescent municipality erstwhile I lived present archetypal successful 1965. I really lived down maine present successful these aforesaid apartments upstairs," said Le Grand nonmigratory Robert Silva, who pointed to the flat wherever the location penetration was reported. "It definite has changed," helium said.
Silva says helium moved backmost to the country astir 3 years ago.
While helium says it's the archetypal location penetration telephone he's heard of successful town, he's not amazed it happened.
"We mostly enactment location indoors astatine night. You know, we don't travel retired excessively much," helium told us. "It's decidedly getting rougher and rowdy successful this tiny small community. It's astir apt erstwhile a week you perceive gunshots astir the neighborhood."
