{"id":326056,"date":"2026-05-21T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:38:18","slug":"security-guard-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-at-sacramento-marijuana-dispensary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326056\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard arrested in fatal shooting at Sacramento marijuana dispensary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homicide detectives on Tuesday arrested a security guard on a suspicion of voluntary manslaughter after he allegedly shot two suspects, killing one of them, during a burglary earlier this month at a Sacramento marijuana dispensary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joseph Lawrence Mills, 55, of Sacramento was booked at the Sacramento County Main Jail.<\/p>\n

The deadly shooting occurred May 8 at the marijuana dispensary in the 8500 block of Thys Court in the Florin Fruitridge Industrial Park, just east of Florin Perkins Road.<\/p>\n

About 4:30 a.m., officers initially responded to a report of a burglary in progress at the marijuana dispensary on Thys Court, Sacramento Police Department<\/a> spokesperson Officer Anthony Gamble has said. Additional calls to police reported the shooting.<\/p>\n

Officers arrived at the marijuana dispensary and found a wounded man, later identified as Kato Lamarzae Mills, who was reportedly a suspect in the burglary, police said. He suffered at least one gunshot wound. Police said medics pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Sacramento County Coroner Rosa Vega confirmed Kato Lamarzae Mills, 22, of Oakland, was the man who was fatally shot May 8 at the Thys Court business.<\/p>\n

Officer Allison Smith, a police spokesperson, confirmed Wednesday that there is no relation between the arrested security guard and the man fatally shot, who both have the same last name.<\/p>\n

As officers were investigating the deadly shooting, another man believed to be the other suspect in the dispensary burglary arrived at a hospital with at least one gunshot wound and was reported to be in stable condition, according to the Police Department.<\/p>\n

Police said Mills, who was working as a security guard for the marijuana dispensary, is believed to have shot the two burglary suspects. The security guard remained at the shooting scene and was detained by officers.<\/p>\n

The homicide detectives took over the shooting investigation and later obtained an arrest warrant for the security guard on the voluntary manslaughter charge. The Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office filed a criminal complaint in the homicide case against Joseph Mills last Friday, four days before detectives arrested the security guard.<\/p>\n

Along with the voluntary manslaughter charge, Mills faces two additional felonies on charges of firing a gun at an inhabited building and illegal possession of an assault weapon, jail records show.<\/p>\n

Sacramento Superior Court records show Joseph Mills is scheduled to appear Thursday afternoon for his arraignment hearing. He remained in jail custody Wednesday with his bail amount set at $150,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homicide detectives on Tuesday arrested a security guard on a suspicion of voluntary manslaughter after he allegedly shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[868,135624,135308,135625,27114,121,357,123,122,9113,20305,128813,15704],"class_list":["post-326056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-homicide-detectives","tag-joseph-lawrence-mills","tag-joseph-mills","tag-kato-lamarzae-mills","tag-marijuana-dispensary","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-police-department","tag-security-guard","tag-thys-court","tag-voluntary-manslaughter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326056","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=326056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}