Weekend death toll reaches 5 after back-to-back shootings at sideshows claim 2, police say

Two people were killed and one was wounded Sunday morning in back-to-back shootings Sacramento police said were connected to sideshows.

The latest deaths were the fourth and fifth shooting fatalities in the capital city in 26 hours.

The first of Sunday's incidents unfolded when police responded about 2 a.m. to the 2400 block of Seamist Drive at Sandcastle Way in South Natomas for reports of a shooting. Sacramento Police Department spokeswoman Officer Allison Smith said police found a man with at least one gunshot wound.

Smith said despite life-saving efforts, the man was pronounced dead by firefighters.

Less than an hour later, officers were called to the area of Kelton Way and Main Avenue in the Northpointe section of North Sacramento for another shooting report.

Smith said two male victims were later found by officers at hospitals after they were transported privately. One of the men was later pronounced dead, Smith said; the other victim was listed in "stable" condition.

There were no suspect descriptions in either shooting but Smith said while the incidents were not connected, they were related to "various sideshow activities from the evening/early morning."

The incidents capped a deadly weekend in the city of Sacramento that began with two men being shot along the J Street corridor at 24th Stree t about 1 a.m. Saturday. One of the men died from his injuries, the other remains hospitalized, according to police.

Several hours passed before a woman was shot and killed about 5 p.m. in the College/Glen neighborhood in eastern Sacramento while a 12-year-old boy was gunned down in a south Sacramento residential neighborhood near 22nd Street near Meadowview Road.

The identities of each of the five shooting victims was expected to be released by the Sacramento County Coroner's Office in the coming days.