By Larry Judkins
Glenn County Observer
As reported previously, an early Sunday morning drive-by shooting in southeast Orland resulted in one person being transported by ambulance to Enloe Medical Center in Chico.
At about 3:31 a.m. on Oct. 31, Orland police officers responded to the 1300 block of Brookside Drive in Orland for a report of shots fired. Officers arrived and contacted a 37-year-old woman with an apparent gunshot wound.
Witnesses reported several shots were fired into the residence at 1309 Brookside Drive. A resident on East Walker Street was awakened by five to seven shots.
Brookside Drive runs north and south, just south of the fairgrounds. Brookside is immediately to the east of Fairview Street, where the main entrances of both Fairview School and WestHaven Assisted Living are located.
At 3:35 a.m., volunteers with the Orland Fire Department began receiving messages regarding the incident.
Truck 29 announced that it was responding at 3:40 a.m., and it arrived at the scene at 3:43 a.m. Four minutes later, Truck 40 did the same.
Seconds later, Truck 29 said they were available and returning to the firehouse. Westside Ambulance, the Truck 29 volunteer said, was transporting one victim.
Also on board the ambulance was a firefighter who went along to assist the ambulance personnel. A volunteer from Truck 40 stated they were heading to Enloe to pick up the rider.
Due to heavy radio static, a law enforcement officer made a mostly unintelligible comment about finding “no vehicles” that may have recently left the area of the shooting. According to a press release from the Orland Police Department on Monday, Nov. 1, no suspects have been identified.
The OPD press release included very few new pieces of information regarding the shooting. Besides the fact that no suspects have been identified, it is now known that the shooting victim was a 37-year-old woman whose name has been withheld, and the suspects shot blindly into the inhabited house.
Not even the condition of the victim has been released.
At about 4:15 a.m., Orland Police Officer Ryan Martindale told the Glenn County Sheriff’s dispatcher that he was on his way to Enloe Medical Center, presumably to conduct interviews and/or collect evidence. Roughly 45 minutes later, Officer Martindale said he was returning to Orland.
According to the Orland Police Department, this investigation is ongoing and the department urges anybody with information about the incident to contact Sgt. Cessna at 530-865-1616.
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