San Diego County

Two People Shot at a Bonita Shopping Center, Suspect at Large: SDSO

The shooting happened around 4 p.m. Sunday in a parking lot at the shopping center on Bonita Road near Central Avenue, according to deputies

Two multi-ethnic police officers standing in front of patrol cars, behind police tape, wearing bulletproof vests and duty belts. The policewoman is a mature African-American woman in her 40s. Her partner is a mid adult man in his 30s. It is nighttime and the emergency lights on top of the vehicles are flashing. The focus is on the cordon tape in the foreground.

Two people were injured in a shooting at a Bonita shopping center Sunday, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said.

The shooting happened around 4 p.m. in a parking lot at the shopping center on Bonita Road near Central Avenue, SDSO's Lt. Mike Krugh told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Witnesses told the SDSO someone was firing from the parking lot into a building and that the two victims were driven to a hospital by friends, the SD-UT reported.

The suspect was last seen walking eastbound on Central Avenue from Bonita Road. A helicopter announcement was broadcast to area residents that deputies were searching for a man in his mid-20s in a black baseball hat, black T-shirt and blue jeans, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 150 pounds.

The suspect was armed and dangerous, the announcement said. A motive for the shooting was not immediately known.

No other information was immediately available.

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