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A 17-year-old girl was killed and five others were wounded in a shooting early Saturday at a party near a college campus in Northern California, police said.
Officers who responded around 3:30 a.m. to reports of shots fired found six people shot at an apartment building in Chico, Police Chief Billy Aldridge said.
All the victims were taken to hospitals and the teenager died at a hospital, he said.
Two men, ages 21 and 19, and a 17-year-old girl remained hospitalized in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries, the chief said. Two other men, ages 18 and 20, were treated at the hospital and released, Aldridge said.
The shooting appeared to be an isolated incident and there was no ongoing threat to the community, police said. They did not release any information about the shooter.
Police had been called to the same address about 30 minutes before the shooting and arrested a man on suspicion of brandishing a firearm, Aldridge said.
That suspect matches the description of a man who was asked to leave a separate party about a mile away around 12:30 p.m., Aldridge said. A fight broke out at the previous party and two people were hospitalized after being hit in the head, one with a bottle and one with a firearm, the chief said.
The investigation continued Saturday.
The two sides were in neighborhoods near California State University in Chico, a city of about 101,000 people 90 miles north of Sacramento.
