(10-23) 13:23 PDT Fremont - -- A lunchtime shooting across from Irvington High School in Fremont left a 21-year-old man dead today, police said.
Investigators do not believe the incident is connected to the school or its students but have locked down the campus as a precaution, authorities said. Robertson High School, a continuation school nearby, released its students to go home shortly after the shooting, police said.
The shooting happened about 12:30 p.m. at a shopping center at 41200 Blacow Road in the city's Irvington district, police Sgt. Chris Mazzone said.
The victim, whose name has not been released, was in a car with several other people near a liquor store in the shopping center when a white or silver Honda Accord, also carrying several people, pulled up alongside, police said.
A man jumped out of the Honda and shot the victim once in the back, possibly with a semiautomatic handgun, then fled, police said. The victim staggered to a doughnut shop several doors down, collapsed and died.
Relatives of the slain man came to scene shortly after the shooting and were crying and hugging each other.
One woman slipped under yellow police tape, and was immediately told by police to stay back.
"That's my nephew, what the hell you talking about?" she yelled back.
