A Sacramento County sheriff’s parking enforcement officer was reportedly shot while on duty in a residential area in Arden Arcade.
The shooting was reported shortly before 11 a.m. in the 2000 block of Wyda Way, just west of Howe Avenue and north of Alta Arden Expressway.
Sergeant Amar Gandhi, spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, said the officer was not injured. He said the parking attendant was in a sheriff’s vehicle when the shot hit a window of the vehicle.
Investigators were trying to determine whether it was a gunshot or a bullet from a BB gun, Gandhi said.
The parking enforcement officer is a civilian, unarmed sheriff’s employee, Gandhi said. Parking attendants drive white vehicles with the Sheriff’s Office insignia and amber emergency lights. He said parking enforcement vehicles are “very distinctly different from a sheriff’s patrol vehicle.”
Gandhi said investigators had identified a vehicle from which the shot appeared to have been fired. The vehicle had previously received a parking ticket, he said. The sheriff’s spokesman said investigators found the vehicle and detained two people for questioning.
