Early Saturday morning, police were called to a Chico apartment complex near Columbus Avenue. When they arrived, they encountered six young people who had been shot. All were taken to Enloe Medical Center, where a 17-year-old girl died.
Among the five who were wounded are a 21-year-old man, a 19-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl who were taken to the hospital in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. A 20-year-old and an 18-year-old were treated and discharged.
“I will not be releasing any names at this time as the investigation is in its early stages,” Chico Police Chief Billy Aldridge said in a press briefing Saturday morning.
Aldridge says a suspect in the shootings has not yet been apprehended.
Aldridge says a house party at the site had already turned violent before shots were fired. One man was arrested for brandishing a gun half an hour before the mass shooting, police say. That person was in custody at the time of the shooting, according to the Chico Enterprise-Record, but had assaulted two people earlier in the night.
Material from the Associated Press was included in this article.
This is a developing story. We will update it with more information when it becomes available.
