Hollister
– The Hollister Police Department is investigating a drive-by
shooting that occurred early Sunday morning on Powell Street.
Hollister – The Hollister Police Department is investigating a drive-by shooting that occurred early Sunday morning on Powell Street.
It was the city’s third drive-by shooting in the past three weeks.
Police said they do not think the incident was gang-related.
Officer Rosie Betanio, a spokeswoman for the Hollister Police Department, said investigators believe family members of a Hollister woman shot two bullets into her ex-boyfriend’s home in the 800 block of Powell Street at 4:16am Sunday.
The five people in the house, who ranged in age from 16 to 46 years old, were uninjured, Betanio said. Police have identified three suspects, Betanio said, but she declined to release their names on Monday.
Betanio said the shooters were in a red GMC Sierra pickup truck.
Police continue to investigate a drive-by shooting that occurred on Feb. 13 in the 800 block of B Street and on Friday in the 1100 block of C Street.
Friday’s shooting is believed to have involved the Norteño street gang, police said.
Betanio said the house hit by gunfire Friday was formerly occupied by the family of Emilio Roman, the 17-year-old Hollister resident accused in the killing of 18-year-old Daniel Gallegos in July 2006.
Authorities believe Roman is a member of the Sureño street gang. His family no longer lives there, Betanio said.
Although police have not said whether they think the Feb. 13 shooting was gang-related, a resident of the home previously told the Free Lance that he believed the house was targeted by members of the Norteño street gang.
No one has been injured in the three drive-by shootings this year. In 2006, there were six drive-by shootings in Hollister, according to police records.
