Sacramento police on Monday arrested a man suspected of taking part in the shooting in the early morning hours of Sunday that killed six people and injured more than a dozen, the Sacramento Bee reports.
Twenty-six year old Dandrae Martin was arrested as a “related suspect” in the shooting and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and illegal firearms possession. Martin is an ex-convict who was carrying a gun when arrested. Authorities have said there were multiple shooters.
“As the investigation progressed, Sacramento Police Department SWAT and detectives served search warrants at three residences in the area,” the police said in a news release. “During the execution of the search warrants, at least one handgun was recovered.”
The arrest comes on the same day authorities released the names of those killed in the shooting, which occurred at closing time in a neighborhood with a number of bars. The shooting was the second mass murder in Sacramento in about a month: on February 28th, a man shot and killed his three daughter and a chaperone before killing himself at a church during a supervised visit.
The shooting is the third mass murder of six or more people in the United States so far this year.