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A 15-year-old boy who was shot Friday at Alisal High School, in Salinas, died of his injuries later that day. Jose Daniel Cisneros was shot multiple times as he walked across the school’s athletic field. He was airlifted to San Jose, and died after undergoing surgery. An autopsy is scheduled to be conducted Monday. No arrests have been made in the incident, which is being investigated as gang related.
1-person was killed, and another was hospitalized, after being shot in Salinas on Friday Night. 20-year-old Jaime Esteban Guerrero died at the scene of the Key Street shooting, while the other man, a 21-year-old, was air-lifted out of the county for medical treatment, and is expected to survive. Police are investigating the incident as gang-related, although they have not announced a connection between this 7:18 p.m. incident, and the Friday morning murder of a 15-year-old Alisal High student. An autopsy on Guerrero is scheduled to be conducted today. No arrests have been made in either homicide case.
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office has released the identity of a 78-year-old King City woman who died after a being involved in a car accident on highway-101 on Friday. Young Ja Koo was in the passenger seat when the car rolled over in the southbound lanes, near Walnut Avenue in Greenfield. The driver in the single-vehicle crash is expected to survive. The cause of the 1:30 p.m. wreck is still being investigation by the C-H-P.
Details of a tentative budget deal reached Friday by California lawmakers are still emerging. The plan to close the 19.1-billion dollar gap involves 7.5-billion dollars in spending cuts, as well as delaying by 2-years a corporate tax break which was scheduled to take effect in January. To erase the remaining gap without raising taxes, lawmakers are hoping several things turn out as they predict. Legislators are counting on the economy to continue to improve, as well as increased funding from the federal government. The state also hopes to raise 1.2-billion dollars by selling 11-public properties, and then leasing them back. The budget deal could be voted on by Thursday, which would be 99-days over the constitutional deadline.
King city police arrested 1-person, after a stabbing occurred at the King City Motel Sunday afternoon. The 30-year-old victim was stabbed once in the chest with a kitchen knife, and was taken to Mee Memorial Hospital. He is expected to survive the attack. Police arrested the victim’s roommate in the 4:30 p.m. assault, and are investigating the incident.