Mother Killed, 5 Wounded in Gunbattle at Strip Mall

SACRAMENTO -- A mother             in the gunbattle have been
loading her 2-year-old             taken tolocal hospitals,
soninto an SUV was killed          including an unidentified man
Tuesday and five others were       withlife-threatening injuries
wounded in agunbattle at a         who was shot in the chest,
strip mall in south                Curran said.
Sacramento, authorities said.      A 37-year-old man, who was
Two men were inside a barber       one of the barbers working
shop just before 1 p.m. when       inside theshop, was shot in
twoother men came in and           the ankle. A 28-year-old man
started shooting, said             was shot in theshoulder and
Sacramento CountySheriff's         leg. Another man whose age
Sgt. Tim Curran.                   was unknown suffered a
The men in the barber shop         legwound.
were armed and returned fire,      The fifth man, a 39-year-old
Curransaid.                        male, suffered a grazing
The gunbattle apparently           wound.
moved into the parking lot         Authorities have not released
with atleast one of the            the identities. No charges
suspects getting into a white      havebeen filed.
sedan. Curran saidthe gunfire      "They are all being treated
continued as some of the           as victims. We do believe
suspects got away.                 there's ahigh probability
A bullet struck the 30-year-       that those we are with are
old woman in the chest just        suspects," Curransaid.
aftershe put her son into the      He said the strip mall in
child seat of her Chevy Tahoe,     south Sacramento has been
Curransaid. The woman was          taped offand authorities have
pronounced dead at the scene;      found multiple shell casings
the child wasunhurt and has        on the ground.The gunfire
been placed under child            damaged several vehicles in
protective services.               the parking lot, includinga
"We believe she's a totally        Chinese restaurant across the
innocent victim," Curran said.     street about 200 yards away.
Four of the five men injured       

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