A 47-year-old man was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting La Jolla, according to the San Diego Police Department, and the suspect is still on the run.
Just before 9:45 p.m. Wednesday, the victim was walking away from his car near 3100 Morning Way, across the street from the Shops at La Jolla, when he was shot multiple times by an unidentified suspect in an unknown vehicle, according to the SDPD.
Bullets hit the man in the stomach, and his injuries were considered life-threatening, according to authorities. There was no description of a suspect or vehicle, police said.
A motive was also unclear, according to the department.
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Neighbor Joshua Hartman heard so many shots he thought there were two people firing guns.
"There was one first then, probably, five or six seconds pass by. There was another one in a few more seconds then four or five in rapid succession," Hartman said.
Neighbor Sloan Zsiros heard the commotion from down the street.
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“I heard, I knew they were gunshots," Zsiros said.
Neighbor Ryan Sullivan was in Pasadena. He heard it while talking to his wife on the phone.
"She was upset, obviously. We never thought something like that would happen in our neighborhood here," Sullivan said.
A person with first-hand knowledge of the incident told NBC 7 the shooter and the victim know one another and that they are both connected to a single home in the Cambridge condominium complex. SDPD investigators have not confirmed those details.
The Cambridge complex is a desirable place to live. The last condominium sold here was recently purchased for $1.3 million.
To say such crimes don’t happen here, neighbors would say that’s an understatement.
“Oh yes. We never have anything go on here in this neighborhood. Definitely, we are very concerned," Zsiros said.
Cambridge residents are asking for greater police protection, and they held an emergency homeowners association meeting Thursday night to discuss it.
SDPD's Northern Division detectives were investigating the attack.
