Police describe double slaying as gang-related

A shooting that killed two people and injured four others in downtown San Rafael on Friday night was apparently gang-related, a senior investigator said Sunday.

“We are continuing to network with our law enforcement partners in order to gather more information and intelligence regarding this tragic shooting,” said Lt. Dan Fink of the San Rafael Police Department. He did not elaborate on the evidence pointing to gang involvement.

Authorities have not released the names of the dead victims, a 24-year-old Stockton man and a 27-year-old Fairfield man.

The shooting happened at about 10:40 p.m. Friday near Third Street at Lootens Place, the 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 were involved in a crash in San Anselmo. One man, 24, was dead and a second man, 29, was taken to a hospital.

Separately, a 27-year-old Fairfield man 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.

Fink said gun casings from a high-powered automatic rifle were found 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.