Authorities have arrested a suspect and are working to find out a motive after bullets zipped by means of the home windows of a local Sacramento TV station in what metropolis police described as a drive-by shooting on Friday afternoon.
Even although the constructing was occupied at the time, all workers of KXTV — also referred to as ABC10 — are secure and unhurt after the shooting, in accordance with Tegna, the media firm that owns the station.
KXTV can be a local affiliate of ABC and NCS.
Hours after the shooting — which was reported at 1:30 p.m. local time Friday — a 64-year-old man was arrested on expenses of assault with a lethal weapon, shooting into an occupied constructing and negligent discharge of a firearm in connection to the shooting, police mentioned.
Police recognized the suspect as Anibal Hernandez Santana, who was arrested after a automobile match led police to a residence, Sacramento police told NCS early Saturday morning. He was held at the Sacramento County Main Jail on $200,000 bail and launched earlier than the top of the day, data present. He’s scheduled to seem in court docket on September 23. NCS is working to determine Hernandez Santana’s legal professional.
The FBI is helping the Sacramento Police Department in the investigation, the company instructed NCS Saturday.
Police collect at KXTV, an ABC affiliate, the place photographs had been fired on Friday, September 19, in Sacramento, California. – KCRA
The shooting got here sooner or later after protesters gathered at the station in response to ABC pulling comic Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show off air “indefinitely” over feedback he made about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, according to KXTV. There had been no protests going down at the time of the shooting on Friday, NCS affiliate KCRA reported.
In a press release to NCS, Tegna spokesperson Molly McMahon mentioned “while details are still limited, importantly, all of our employees are safe and unharmed. We are fully cooperating with law enforcement and have taken additional measures to ensure the continued safety of our employees.”
Police are working to find out whether or not the station has obtained any current threats, mentioned Anthony Gamble, Sacramento police spokesperson. They may also search for digital proof together with surveillance footage, piece collectively a timeline and interview workers who had been contained in the station.
“It should never be accepted that somebody is going to drive by any type of business, let alone a media partner, and shoot at the building,” Gamble mentioned.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been briefed on the shooting, his office said in a post on X.
“While no injuries have been reported, any act of violence toward journalists is an attack on our democracy itself and must be condemned in the strongest terms,” the publish learn. “We stand with reporters and staff who work every day to keep communities informed and safe!”
Police are asking the general public to share any data that could be associated to the case. Those who want to stay nameless can submit ideas through Crime Stoppers.
NCS’s Jack Hannah contributed to this report.
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