Two Hollister residents are dead after shootings occurred Sunday
night in an apartment complex on Diablo Drive, according to a
police spokesman.
Two Hollister residents are dead after shootings occurred Sunday night in an apartment complex on Diablo Drive, according to a police spokesman.
Police Sgt. David Westrick confirmed there were two dead after the shootings – a man and a woman – but could provide few other details and said the department will release a press statement in about an hour.
The shootings occurred at 1470 Diablo Drive on Hollister’s south side at around 9 p.m. There were a total of four people in the home at the time in an apartment complex that houses four units. One other resident was injured and transported to Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital, and a child was found on scene and uninjured, Westrick said. He did not have ages available of those involved.
A spokesman for the San Benito County Sheriff’s Office, which acts as the coroner as well, did not immediately return phone calls. The Hollister Fire Department responded, too, but officials also were not available immediately.
Neighbors on Monday morning, though, were still in a state of shock over the shootings.
A neighbor in a home adjacent to the apartment building where it occurred said she and her family were having a late dinner when they heard three shots fired. The woman, who declined to provide her name, said police arrived just moments after hearing the shots and that authorities were at the crime scene into early-morning hours. She said the residents of the unit had lived there for about two years.
A woman had lived at the home with a boyfriend, along with her grown daughter and another young child, neighbors said.
The apartment complex is located just south of Sunnyslope Road and north of Sunset Drive. The neighborhood includes mostly houses, but some apartment complexes as well.
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