Deputies investigate Bay Point deadly shooting on Halloween; neighbors hear at least 30 gunshots
BAY POINT, Calif. - Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies closed off a part of a residential neighborhood in Bay Point early Wednesday morning following a deadly shooting on Halloween night.
The coroner confirmed that one person died but offered no other details. The sheriff's department is not identifying the victim at this time.
Deputies confirmed to KTVU that there was a shooting on Island View Court in the Shore Acres neighborhood about 9 p.m. on Tuesday, which appears to have happened at a home, now surrounded with crime scene tape.
Deputies from the Muir Station were dispatched to a report of shots fired in the area of Island View Drive at 9:23 p.m.
Deputies were seen putting two or three people in handcuffs.
A family member ran outside at one point in the morning, asking "where are you taking him?"
The deputy responded: "juvenile hall."
Plain-clothes investigators were also seen carrying out firearms, including what looked like to be an assault rifle. A K-9 unit also was stationed outside the home.
Joe Ponce said he and his daughter, who live on the same court, were luckily not home when the shots rang out. But his landlord also confirmed he heard about 40 shots, and a "kid who was in the house ran out after he got shot."
Bay Point is located just west of Pittsburg and northeast of Concord.
Other than the one confirmed death, deputies would not immediately say how many people were injured, although fire officials told KTVU that at least one person arrived with injuries at the fire station and then was taken to the hospital.
In 2019, sheriff's deputies also investigated a mass shooting at a Halloween party at and AirBnB rental in Orinda that left five dead.
Deputies investigate a Halloween shooting on Island View Court in the Shore Acres neighborhood about 9 p.m. on Tuesday, which appears to have happened at a home, now surrounded with crime scene tape.
Deputies investigate a Halloween shooting on Island View Court in the Shore Acres neighborhood about 9 p.m. on Tuesday, which appears to have happened at a home, now surrounded with crime scene tape.