Police say response to apartment complex tied to earlier double shooting

PITTSBURG >> The gunsdrawn response by police to an apartment complex Thursday morning was related to a double shooting hours earlier at a shopping center across the way, police said Friday.

Police in tactical gear swarmed the apartment complex several hundred feet from the shooting scene at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Harbor Street around 11 a.m. Lt. Patrick Wentz, a spokesman for the department, said Friday afternoon that officers took more than one person into custody.

Officers also brought children from at least one second-floor unit, but Wentz said that was done as a precautionary measure and that the children were not directly involved in any incident.

“We really can’t say much more than that at this point of the investigation,” Wentz said. “We are following many leads, and if they pan out like we hope, then we will be able to release more information. That may not be until early next week.”

Earlier Thursday, at about 2:45 a.m., officers were called to the parking lot of the Food Co. supermarket in the 300 block of Atlantic Avenue and found a man and woman down on the ground, police said. The man, identified as 20-yearold Antioch resident Isiah Legaspi, died at a hospital, police said.

Police Chief Brian Addington first confirmed the connection between the two incidents in an email Friday morning.

The woman remained hospitalized Friday, authorities said. She had lifethreatening injuries when she was rushed to the hospital, but authorities have not provided an update on her condition.

According to police, the shooting happened as the two were walking across the shopping center parking lot. A suspect ran away from the scene in one direction, and a car that he exited took off in the other direction, police said, adding that the man suspected of the shooting argued with the other man before shots were fired.

The homicide was Pittsburg’s third in 2020.