2 SHOT, 1 KILLED IN CONFRONTATION.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer ROSAMOND - One woman is dead, a second is hospitalized and a third is in jail following a shooting at a mobile home in a sparsely populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. area north of Rosamond, Kern Kern, river, 155 mi (249 km) long, rising in the S Sierra Nevada Mts., E Calif., and flowing south, then southwest to a reservoir in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin valley. The river has Isabella Dam as its chief facility. County sheriff's deputies said Monday. One of the shooting victims had been forced to move out of the home and had returned Sunday with friends to pick up some belongings, deputies said. Neither victim's name was immediately released. Kern County coroner's officials said they had not been able to locate the dead woman's family. Shari Mari Jones, 31, was arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon Assault with a Deadly Weapon is the term used to describe the act of threatening to harm one or more people by using a weapon (usually a firearm). Here, assault must be differentiated from battery as they are often confused. Assault is threatening to use force. . Deputies said an altercation broke out after the former resident returned to the home to pick up her belongings. Deputies said Jones armed herself with a .22 rifle and fired several shots inside the mobile home, then more outside. One woman was shot in the chest and another in the leg, piercing her femoral artery femoral artery n. 1. An artery with origin at the continuation of the external iliac artery, with branches to the pudendal, epigastric, circumflex iliac arteries, the deep artery of the thigh, and the descending genicular artery, and . Both were flown by helicopter to Kern County Medical Center in Bakersfield from the home off Backus Road near Mojave-Tropico Road. The woman shot in the chest survived, but the woman hit in the leg died at the hospital, deputies said. Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com |
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