A MAN AND A WOMAN SUFFERED SERIOUS INJURIES WHEN THEY WERE SHOT THIS AFTERNOON IN SOQUEL….AND A WHITE SEDAN, THAT SEEMED TO MATCH THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ONE THE GUNMAN FLED IN, WAS FOUND ABANDONED IN APTOS, BUT TURNED OUT TO BE THE WRONG ONE. THE VEHICLE THAT IS BEING SOUGHT IS A 2013 WHITE HONDA SEDAN, WITH CALIFORNIA LICENSE PLATE 7 PXV 944. A PERSON-OF-INTEREST IN THIS CASE, WHO HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS 31 YEAR-OLD JOSE RAMOS, REPORTEDLY DROVE THE WRONG WAY ON SEVERAL STREETS (AS HE FLED FROM THE SCENE OF THE 2:30 P.M. SHOOTING AT THE CORNER OF SOQUEL DRIVE AND RODEO GULCH ROAD). RAMOS IS BELIEVED TO STILL BE ARMED AND DANGEROUS.
ANYONE WITH ANY INFORMATION ON THE SHOOTING, OR RAMOS’S WHEREABOUTS, IS ENCOURAGED TO CONTACT THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT.
