Housing and Development Newsletter
Just two days earlier, Mario Angel Merino Gonzalez, 19, of Guadalupe was shot to death in another Santa Maria neighborhood.
Shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday, police officers, Santa Maria firefighters and an AMR ambulance were dispatched to the shooting scene near North Lincoln and West Mill streets, a block west of North Broadway, Flaa said.
They discovered Gonzalez, who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds, in the middle of the street, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The initial investigation revealed that Gonzalez had been in a verbal altercation with a group of people when someone pulled a gun and shot him, police said.