The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office continues its investigation into last week’s drive-by shooting near Winters, which killed a man.
Coroner’s officials have not publicly identified the victim, who died from his injuries on Sunday and has not yet undergone an autopsy, Chief Deputy Coroner Gina Moya said Tuesday.
Meanwhile, sheriff’s detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect as well as a motive in the shooting, which occurred at about 1:30 p.m. Friday on County Road 89 north of Winters.
The suspect fired from a small, dark-colored sedan at the victim, who was a passenger in another vehicle, sheriff’s Lt. Ray Jimenez said. The driver who accompanied the victim took him to Sutter Davis Hospital before his transfer to an area trauma center, where he died of his injuries two days later.
“It’s now a homicide,” Jimenez said Monday. The suspect car, he said, was last seen traveling northbound on Road 89.
Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact sheriff’s dispatchers at 530-666-8282 or leave an anonymous tip at 530-668-5248.