At least six dead in barrage of bullets fired from car after bars let out in Sacramento 

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At least six people were killed and ten injured after shots rang out in California‘s capital city early Sunday morning. 

Sacramento officers were patrolling the area at about 2am when they heard gunfire near 10th and J Streets, Police Chief Kathy Lester said during a news conference.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found a large crowd gathered on the street and six people dead. 

Ten others were transported to area hospitals by ambulance and private vehicles. Their conditions remain unknown.

‘[This is] a very complex and complicated scene,’ Lester told the media, issuing a plea to residents to provide any information of recordings of the incident to police.

Police have not provided any information about the shooter, however, a law enforcement source told The Sacramento Bee the gunman remains at large. Authorities did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment.

Citizens have been advised to avoid the area.  

Public Safety News, an independent media agency that responded to the scene, reported that shots were fired around 2am, shortly after last call for bars in the area. 

There are ‘victims all over the corner,’ a PSN journalist said in a Facebook live report. 

Witnesses reported seeing a person in a car pull out an automatic weapon and begin shooting into a crowd gathered outside the El Santo Restaurant & Ultralounge. 

Multiple ambulances responded to the scene as paramedics provided CPR and other treatment to victims on the sidewalks while authorities ushered crowds of people to safety.

At least two videos circulating on social media captured sounds of shots fired.

Bystanders told California-based reporter Malik Earnest they heard more than fifty shots ring out before the gunman’s vehicle screeched away from the chaotic scene.

One of the videos shows multiple people fighting on the sidewalk as rapid gunfire strikes, prompting people to run through the streets. 

Berry Accius, of Sacramento’s Voice of the Youth, told KXTV he arrived to the ‘chaotic’ scene around 2.30am. 

‘A lot of victims with blood, just watching some of the families that didn’t know if their loved one was alive, running, trying to figure out what was happening, people distraught, people discombobulated,’ Accius said. ‘It was just horrific.’

‘I saw a young girl with a whole bunch of blood in her body, a girl taking off glass from her, a young girl screaming saying, “They killed my sister.”‘ 

The community activist also recalled a mother running up to the scene, asking: ‘Where’s my son, has my son been shot?’  

Accius said the area, which is known for its nightlife, should’ve been a safe space. 

‘I’m just shocked that somebody would come here to a place where it should be safe and do something as heinous as this with multiple victims, not only just shot but dead in our city,’ he added. ‘Right here in downtown, in a safe space.’ 

Kay Harris, a Sacramento resident, said she was asleep when one of her family members called to say they thought her brother had been killed. He had reportedly gone out to London, a nightclub located on 10th Street.

‘Very much so a senseless violent act,’ she told the Associated Press. 

Harris, 32, said she has been to the club a few times and described it as a place for ‘the younger crowd.’ 

Sacramento City Council member Katie Valenzuela took to Twitter early Sunday morning to issue her support for the community amid the tragedy.

‘Around 2.30am, I got the call no elected official wants to get. Another shooting. More lives lost,’ she wrote. 

‘The national gun violence epidemic has hit our community – again. I won’t release any specifics until @SacPolicedoes. Until then, please take care of each other.’