Livermore Parking Lot Gunman Linked To Fresno Murder
LIVERMORE (CBS/AP) — A teen wanted for killing one and wounding another with a high-powered rifle is also a suspect in another slaying last month.
Authorities say Jason Alexander Brown, 18, was driving 2006 325i BMW when he opened fire at about 6 p.m. Saturday on two men in their 20s sitting in a Toyota Corolla parked in CVS pharmacy parking lot in Livermore.
One man was killed and another seriously wounded, Livermore Police said. Neither victim has been identified. Livermore police say the shooting survivor has not been able to speak to investigators because of the severity of his injuries.
Several witnesses provided descriptions and the license plate of the car to police and said the car also had a passenger, who investigators haven't identified. A California Highway Patrol officer spotted the BMW shortly after the shooting and chased it into Oakland before losing sight of the car.
A SWAT team stormed a house where Brown lives with his family and where the BMW was parked, but the suspect was not found, Livermore police Sgt. Steve Goard told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Police said Sunday that Brown is also suspected of shooting to death Albert Thao, 27, while he dined with a companion in a Thai restaurant on Sept. 12 in Fresno, California. Police said a gunman burst into the central Fresno restaurant and fatally shot Thao in the neck and his companion in the chest. The companion wasn't identified, but is expected to survive.
Anyone with information about the killings is urged to call Livermore police at 925-371-4777.
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