{"id":224408,"date":"2026-03-17T23:24:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224408\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:24:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:24:25","slug":"sacramento-detectives-investigate-deadly-shooting-on-watt-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224408\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento detectives investigate deadly shooting on Watt Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is dead following a shooting in the Rosemont area of Sacramento on Tuesday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said reports of a shooting at an apartment complex near South Watt Avenue and Jackson Road came in around 9:45 a.m. A caller told dispatchers they heard two shots and saw a man who had been shot.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies arrived to find a 28-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds and immediately began life-saving efforts. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said witness interviews led deputies to believe the suspect may have remained inside the apartment complex following the shooting, which prompted authorities to secure the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators remained on scene late Tuesday afternoon, continuing to gather evidence and speak with witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said there is currently no suspect information or known motive. Authorities also noted they do not believe the victim lived at the apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p>Initial evacuations of nearby apartments were carried out as a precaution but have since been lifted.<\/p>\n<p>The intersection of South Watt Avenue and Jackson Road is closed and is expected to remain shut down for several hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is dead following a shooting in the Rosemont area of Sacramento on Tuesday, officials said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,135],"class_list":["post-224408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}