18-year-old arrested in shooting that left 2 family members dead in Elk Grove
An 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of homicide in the shooting deaths of two people found dead Monday inside an Elk Grove home, where investigators believe a family argument led to gunfire.
Noah Battaglia was identified as the suspect who allegedly shot and killed two family members, a 51-year-old man and a 19-year-old man, during the dispute, the Elk Grove Police Department announced Monday afternoon in a news release.
Police officials did not say how Battaglia was related to the two men who died in the shooting. The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office will release their names after their families have been notified.
Officers responded around 5:40 a.m. to the home in the 8200 block of Triplefin Way, south of Whitelock Parkway, where they found both men dead at the scene, police said.
Radio dispatches reviewed by The Sacramento Bee indicated the men killed were occupants of the home.
Two family members were in the home at the time of the shooting, Elk Grove Police Department officials said in an afternoon update. One left the home before officers arrived but was later located by police, officials said. Investigators were interviewing both family members Monday afternoon.
“It’s early in the investigation, but what we do know is that this was not a random act,” Elk Grove Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Jason Jimenez said from the scene. “Detectives will be on scene for several hours gathering information on what happened.”
Yellow crime scene tape blocked much of Triplefin Way and sectioned off the home where the shooting occurred. A mobile command center served as a base of operations for the investigation as officers processed the scene.
Triplefin resident Regina Jones said she did not hear gunshots but woke Monday to police converging on her neighbor’s home. Jones did not know her neighbors. “I’ve just seen them in passing,” she said.
“The only thing I heard was dogs barking. I went outside and there were just all the officers,” Jones said from a nearby walkway. “It’s such a quiet neighborhood. You never think anything like this could happen in your own neighborhood.”
Initially, the circumstances that led up to the deadly shooting were unclear to investigators. But detectives later determined the fatal shooting stemmed from an argument among family members, police said Monday afternoon.
Battaglia had left the house before police officers arrived, police said, but investigators found him two hours later at a south Sacramento home. Battaglia was booked on two counts of homicide at the Sacramento County Jail.
Investigators asked anyone with information about this fatal shooting to call the Police Department’s Investigations Bureau at 916-478-8060 or Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers at 916-443-4357.
This story was originally published June 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM.
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