2 victims identified in downtown homicides
The two men shot to death in downtown San Rafael over the weekend have been identified as Phillip Reginald Hill Jr., 27, of Vallejo and Javel Lamar Wiggins Jr., 24, of Stockton, the coroner’s office said Monday.
Investigators said the shooting, which also injured four other people, was apparently gang-related. Police have reported no arrests.
San Rafael police said no suspects have been identified, but released no additional details about the investigation on Monday.
Forensic post-mortem examinations and toxicology tests for Hill and Wiggins are scheduled for Tuesday, said Chief Deputy Coroner Roger Fielding.
The shooting happened at about 10:40 p.m. Friday near Third Street at Lootens Place, the San Rafael Police Department said. Witnesses saw a vehicle speeding from the scene, and an officer saw a potential match nearby.
The officer tried to stop the car but the driver would not yield at first. It stopped at the top of Wolfe Grade, and police found four people in the vehicle. Two of them — a 25-year-old Fairfield man and a 25-year-old Pittsburg man — had gunshot wounds, police said.
Around that time, two men from Stockton crashed their vehicle in San Anselmo. One man, Wiggins, was dead and a second man, 29, was taken to a hospital.
Separately, Hill was dropped off at the emergency department entrance of a hospital by a driver who left the scene after hospital workers pulled the victim from the car. He died at the hospital.
The other gunshot victim was a 62-year-old homeless man inside a parking garage near the shooting. Police said he is expected to survive.
Investigators found gun casings from a high-powered automatic rifle on the ground in the parking garage. Police found no guns in the vehicles on Wolfe Grade or in San Anselmo.
Police said many of the shooting victims had come to attend a rap show at a Fourth Street nightclub.
Anyone with information for investigators can call San Rafael police at 415-485-3000 or submit it online at srpd.org/tips.