Two teenagers – 15 and 16 years old – were arrested in connection with a “senseless” shooting in which detectives said the boys tried to rob a victim before shooting him outside a light rail station in North Sacramento, police said.
The teens were arrested Wednesday, Sacramento Police Department spokesman Anthony Gamble said, and booked into Juvenile Hall. Gamble said the boys are charged with robbery and murder, but it was not clear who pulled the trigger.
Officers were called to the 400 block of Arden Way on Del Paso Boulevard just after 2 p.m. Sunday for reports of a person shot. Multiple 911 calls were made to the scene, just yards from the Sacramento Region Transit Arden/Del Paso light rail station and a fire station, according to radio reports reviewed by The Sacramento Bee. The suspects fled the scene on foot. As the case took shape, Gamble said investigators in the case “worked around the clock to identify and locate the suspects in this senseless killing.”
Using video surveillance from the RT station and businesses along the busy Old North Sacramento corridor, detectives developed “probable cause that a robbery occurred at the time of the murder” and identified the teens, Gamble said.
Gamble said multiple departments within the agency were working to locate and arrest the teens, although details of Wednesday’s arrests were not released. The names of the suspects are withheld under state law because they
children.
The victim who died at the scene of the crime on Sunday was identified by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office as Charles Edward Blanks, 51 years old.
