Police are still hunting the gunman who shot dead a pregnant mother of four in a Spirit Halloween store
Police responding to confirmed shooting incident at Solano Town Center Mall in Fairfield, California, the mayor says, in a picture posted on X by Noteworthy News.Shoppers scramble for cover inside the Spirit Halloween store in Fairfield, California, where three of the six wounded — including a 16-year-old boy — remain in critical condition.
Constance Hages, 31, a pregnant mother of four who had worked at San Francisco International Airport, was pronounced dead at the scene after a gunman opened fire at around 8:30pm on Friday at a Spirit Halloween store in the Solano Town Center mall in Fairfield, California. Three male victims — aged 16, 19 and 32 — remain in hospital in critical condition, with a fourth, a 23-year-old man, in a critical but stable state. Police believe the shooting was a targeted attack carried out by a lone suspect who fled before officers arrived. The FBI's Sacramento office has deployed its Evidence Response Team to assist the investigation.
Her cousin Chelaya Colbert said: 'I'd like to remember her as the happy lady she was — she loved her kids.'
Witness Jocelyn Lopez Tabares, 15, filmed the chaos on her phone thinking 'I wasn't going to make it out of there.'