Two are fatally shot in rare Napa homicide case, police say

Alex Wigglesworth April 14, 2024

Napa police are investigating the fatal shooting of two

female victims people

Saturday night, a rare instance of such violence in this wine country community popular with tourists.

Officers found the victims

in the 400 block of Riverside Drive

around 8:10 p.m., the Napa Police Department said in a news release. They appeared to be teenagers, reported KTVU-TV Channel 2, which cited a witness to the shooting.

One person died at the scene and the other at a local hospital, police said. Anyone with information

about the shooting

was asked to call Det. Dustin Dodd at (707) 257-9568.

Napa Police Lt. Chris Pacheco declined to say whether a suspect had been identified, but he

saidnoted

that there was no indication of any threat to public safety, according to the Press Democrat.

Napa is the largest city in Napa Valley, and homicides there are uncommon. The killings were the first two recorded in the city this year, Dodd said.