More than nine police and sheriff’s units raced down Arden Way and Howe Avenue Sunday afternoon as residents of an apartment complex took cover and began reporting that people in their neighborhood were being shot. The blur of violence was reminiscent of a murder that happened on the same part of Ethan Way last June.

This latest incident occurred on the 1800 block not far from the In and Out Burger.

Law enforcement quickly established a crime scene perimeter at the complex, determining that a 17-year-old male had been hit in the exchange.

An eye witness told SN&R that he was in his apartment with his screen door open, watching an A’s game, when the gunfire started. Multiple shots rang out. The witness then looked out of his door to see a man with a gun moving through the complex. He observed the man stop, point the weapon at someone, and then hurry into another area of the apartments without firing again. The witness’s wife said that she was just down the street at Dollar Tree when the bullets started flying and was shocked to return to a maze of police lights.

The incident happened roughly two blocks from Best Buy and three blocks from the Arden Fair Mall.

As the teen was being treated at a hospital, the Sheriff’s north patrol deputies, crime scene analysts and homicide detectives all converged on the scene. Investigators eventually determined that between 30 to 40 rounds were fired in the complex. Officials told reporters the teen victim was probably the target. He’s now recovering.

Last summer, a 15-year-old boy named Jimmy Davon Walton was killed on the same street, just one block north of the current shooting. That case happened at night around 10 p.m. when Walton was struck in the chest by gunfire as another man hit the ground with injuries that he’d ultimately survive.

In addition to Sunday’s shooting, Sheriff’s deputies have responded to three aggravated assaults in the neighborhood this month. Anyone with information about this latest shooting is asked to contact law enforcement at 916-874-5115.