Update: Arrest made in killing of 7-year-old girl, man in Upper Land Park shooting
Sacramento police arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the shooting death of an 7-year-old girl and a man late Tuesday in Upper Land Park, authorities said.
Officers responded around 10:20 p.m. to reports of a shooting near the 2600 block of Fifth Street, near Seavey Circle, the Sacramento Police Department said in a news release.
Authorities located both after they had suffered gunshot wounds, according to the news release. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, while the girl was taken to a hospital where she later died.
Sacramento police arrested Tyrice Martin, 22, in connection with the shooting Wednesday.
Details on what led up to the shooting were limited, police said, but confirmed late Wednesday that Martin was the young victim’s uncle.
Police said in a news release that “a neighborhood disturbance between two groups escalated into the tragic fatal shooting” and that “detectives do not believe that there are any outstanding suspects.”
Late Thursday, the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office identified the girl as 7-year-old Isabel Agnes Delgadilo Martin. Officials said she would have turned 8 on Monday. The adult victim was identified as Clifford Hall, 42.
The shooting brought a heavy law enforcement response, with numerous 911 calls and many witnesses initially crowding the scene, according to dispatch radio recordings.
But, by morning, Seavey Circle and surrounding streets were mostly quiet. Most crime scene tape had been removed.
“I just heard sirens,” a resident, George Hernandez IV, said Wednesday morning. “I just felt bad afterwards, knowing somebody lost their life, especially the 8-year-old girl. Broke my heart.”
Hernandez said he saw the adult victim on the ground, but initially “thought he was passed out, or something.”
One neighbor, who declined to comment, was seen weeping on her porch just feet from where the shooting occurred.
Another resident put down a candle as part of a growing vigil, not far from where the child was found unresponsive.
“Grieving this morning over two more senseless deaths to gun violence — one of them a little girl,” Mayor Darrell Steinberg tweeted, in part.
Police reported fatal shootings near the Seavey Circle housing project, called Marina Vista, in July and October 2020.
Black community leaders and Sacramento City Councilwoman Katie Valenzuela held a news conference and vigil in the wake of the shooting Wednesday afternoon at City Hall.
Activist Berry Accius criticized the city for increasing its police budget to an all-time high of $165.8 million in July instead of funding to community groups that work to prevent and reduce gun violence.
“What they did was a slap in the face as they continued to fund law enforcement,” he said
Valenzuela, who represents Upper Land Park, said the city is planning to spend $1.5 million in federal American Rescue Plan funds to address violence, with a request for proposals being sent out Thursday but she said more is needed.
Valenzuela said she would like the city to invest in the Marina Vista complex as it did in Old Sacramento in the wake of several high-profile shootings this summer.
“We put millions into that plan and this community deserves no less,” she said.
Police Chief Daniel Hahn thanked community leaders for their work.
“Every loss of life is a tragedy, but when a young child is involved, it is especially heartbreaking to the family, community, and responding officers,” Hahn said in a news release. “As violence in our city continues to rise, the most vulnerable in our communities are the most affected by these terrible crimes. I would like to thank the community leaders with Black Child Legacy who were instrumental in assisting officers and family members with a tragic scene. I would also like to acknowledge the hard work of the officers, detectives, and other department staff who worked tirelessly overnight and today to make an arrest in this homicide.”
This story was originally published November 17, 2021 at 7:37 AM.
