ESCONDIDO, Calif. (KGTV) — The Escondido Police Department says a young man was killed in a shooting Sunday evening.
At around 5:45 p.m., officers were dispatched to a bike path near the intersection of North Hickory Street and East Washington Avenue following numerous 911 calls reporting gunshots in the area.
Responding officers found a man with multiple gunshot wounds in a flood control channel, and first responders took him to Palomar Medical Center.
EPD officials said the victim, identified as a Hispanic male in his 20s, die from his injuries at around 6:45 p.m.
Witnesses told police they saw a group of people “fighting in the flood control channel before hearing gunshots.”
EPD officials did not have information on a possible shooter at this point in the investigation.
