Cops and Courts

WATSONVILLE — Police are seeking a 16-19-year-old male who shot into an inhabited apartment building on Ross Avenue Sunday night.

According to investigators, the shooter fired three rounds into windows of a second-story apartment and one round through the wall of a first-floor apartments, just missing a 13-year-old girl. Officers recovered a shell casing and a loaded magazine just outside the ground floor apartment.

Officers had responded to an 11 p.m. call of shots fired and reports of the shooter fleeing on foot toward Freedom School. The shooter was described as wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and dark pants.

The motive of this crime is unknown.

In a separate case, police are seeking three teen males in connection with a shooting early Sunday morning.
Around 4:30 a.m., callers to 911 told dispatchers that five shots had been fired at a white Honda on the 200 block or Bockius Street. Officers arrived to find the car hadn’t been hit and that a male inside the car was uninjured.

Investigators collected shell casings and a shirt from the scene.

The suspects, who fled on foot, were described as being between 15 and 16 years old. Two were wearing all black clothing, while one had on a red baseball cap and a gray sweater.

Police urged witnesses to call the Watsonville tip line at 724-3544, the non-emergency line at 471-1151, the investigations unit at 768-3350 or 911 for emergencies.