Shooting in northwest Fresno leaves woman critical. Sheriff’s office investigating

A 22-year-old woman remained in critical condition Monday morning after she was shot multiple times late Sunday night in a normally quiet neighborhood in the northwest Fresno area.

Gunfire broke out about 11 p.m. at North Nantucket and West Roberts avenues, a county island surrounded by the city. Sheriff’s spokesman Tony Botti said the woman was in a car with her boyfriend and there was another, dark-colored car nearby. Five people got out of the second vehicle, and someone in the group began firing at the first car. The woman was struck by the gunfire, but her boyfriend was not wounded.

Botti said it wasn’t clear how the woman was taken to the hospital, whether by her boyfriend or by an ambulance.

It was the fifth shooting of a violent weekend in the city and followed a shooting earlier Sunday night in the 5000 block of East Lane Avenue in the city.

A woman who lives nearby, who was raking leaves Monday morning, declined to give her name but said the only other crime in the neighborhood was a break-in about four years ago. She said deputes were at the shooting scene most of the night.

This story was originally published November 5, 2018 at 8:32 AM.