{"id":227459,"date":"2026-03-19T21:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227459\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:19:13","slug":"sacramento-police-investigate-waterwheel-drive-fatal-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227459\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento police investigate Waterwheel Drive fatal shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Homicide<\/p>\n

Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man found with a gunshot wound last Sunday in Sacramento\u2019s South Natomas neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Shortly after 2 a.m. Sunday, officers were called to the 1500 block of Waterwheel Drive in a residential neighborhood just south of West El Camino Avenue. Officers responded to reports of a man with a gunshot wound on the ground, according to a Sacramento Police Department<\/a> news release.<\/p>\n

Officers arrived at the scene and found the man with at least one gunshot wound, police said. The shooting victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n

The Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office on Thursday confirmed that Elijah David Lopez, 23, of North Highlands was the shooting victim in the Waterwheel drive homicide.<\/p>\n

Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators took over the shooting investigation, collecting evidence and speaking to witnesses.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday evening, polices said the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting remained under investigation, and homicide detectives did not have any suspect information to release.<\/p>\n

Detectives asked anyone with information relevant to this fatal shooting to call the Police Department at 916-808-5471 or Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers at 916-443-4357.<\/p>\n

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The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Rosalio Ahumada writes breaking news stories related to crime and public safety for The Sacramento Bee. He speaks Spanish fluently and has worked as a news reporter in the Central Valley since 2004.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man found with a gunshot wound last Sunday in Sacramento\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,103478,123,122,103479,103476,103477],"class_list":["post-227459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-fatal-shooting","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-police-investigation","tag-south-natomas-homicide","tag-waterwheel-drive-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227459","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=227459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}