At about 5:19 p.m. on Sunday, Tracy police found Ismael Nieto, 28, laying on the ground near the intersection of Lowell Avenue and Corral Hollow Road, having suffered two gunshot wounds to his upper torso, spokesman Sgt. Tony Sheneman said.
Police received several calls a few minutes earlier from people who said they heard gunshots around Alegre Drive and Corral Hollow Road.
Nieto, a Tracy resident, was taken to Sutter Tracy Community Hospital and later transferred to a hospital in Modesto. Sheneman said Nieto was going into surgery around midnight, but his status as of this morning is unknown.
Sheneman said the shooting appears to be gang related.
Witnesses told police that two men wearing bandanas over their faces approached Nieto. After some words were exchanged, five to seven shots were fired.
A caller in the police log said that people in a red Camaro fired five or six shots and drove off toward Alegre Drive. Nieto told police that he didn’t know who shot him and was unable to give a description of the shooters.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting is asked to call Detective Matt Sierra at 831-6675.
Contact a Tracy Press reporter or editor at 835-3030 or tpnews@tracypress.com.
I agree that change can be good and is probably warranted. I have a thought for change...how about the Chief actually SUPPORTS the gang unit?? That would be a change. I am sure without her support and especially now that they are being disbanded they are limited in what they can and cant do.
Hey, why not toss an example or two of what the Chief and City Manager have done that makes them more qualified than our last Chief or City Manager? It is pretty easy to make statements, how about some examples. Frankly I was not supportive of our last Chief and the former City Manager had baggage, however, two wrongs do not make a right.
Onto another topic within your comments to Cinderdog, I do not know or care about "inside information" or who might perform better as a City Council person, however, I found the same information as Cinderdog represented concerning the 13 person gang unit and the background on Olathe, Kansas's new chief on their website. You may care to visit that for your own confirmation!!!!
As to whoever might care to run for City Council at the next election, my suspicion is that there will be a number of people prepared to better represent this City than the current cast of characters.
Just because YOU do not know what the gang unit is doing, does not mean they are doing nothing. That is really an ignorant statement to make. Due to the information that the gang unit had the suspects in the Amore's shooting were arrested within a day or two if I remember correctly. Without this information they may still be out there! Think about this citizens of Tracy, with the gang problem escalating maybe we should EXPAND the gang unit, not get rid of it. If the gang unit is disbanded then that will mean the officers on duty will be responsible to handle all gang related calls/activity, plus the regular calls for service. As of now the gang unit is the one to respond to gang activity leaving current officers available to respond to calls for service. And being a faithful reader of these blogs, many people already bitch about the time it takes for an officer response. It will get worse! Along with our gang problem!
It seems like you know more or feel you could do a better job then the city manager or chief. Why don't you run for city counsel instead of complaining about issues you do not have all the facts to. It is pretty clear that you know or have inside information within the department. Maybe the city manager andchief were hired to get rid of the trouble makers that provided you with that information if you are not one of them. We need to be supportive and give them a chance within the community. They both so far have done a better job then the last city manager and chief if you recall.
(Poor Veterans!)...they're treated worse.
Public relations must be raking in money. They're there for the photos and nothing more!
Well, ankle biters are coming out in force!
CN
Peeved at J.N.
CN
It also says the following. "I hold telephone town halls regularly."
Before the election I saw Jerry McNerney standing in a grocery store in Tracy, CA. And arriving at MonteVista.
After the election, I listened to Jerry McNerney on a telephone conference call, where the operator told us to "hurry up" with our questions? Why?
Another thing that boggles me is why our city didn't get congressional funds. If I recall there were cameras at the Sandra Cantu memorial. Politicians were there THEN.
Where's Jerry McNerney and his gongressional funding NOW, when you NEED him?
Is he unaware of the escalating issues going on in his congressional district?
Tracy Press,
Would you PLEASE get Jerry McNerney on a telephonE conference call and ask him if he will be 'traveling to Tracy, CA attend this event in our community (his congressional district)'?
Having a "gang unit" that nobody knows what the heck they do (or don't do) is not my idea of "coming together".
We need to come together and show these wannabe gangbangers this will not be tolerated.
Great idea to disband the gang task force huh? What a joke.