Authorities Hope Surveillance Footage Leads To Arrest
Stockton (CBS13) - Police are releasing a violent and terrifying tape, hoping someone out there will help identify the shooter and catch a killer.
These are the last few moments of Jeanette Gaines' life. You see her walking out of a Stockton liquor store, near Phelps and Ninth streets.
Investigators say within a minute of leaving the store, she got caught in the middle of a gun battle between rival gangs in broad daylight.
Detectives need help indentifying one of the shooters. You can see the unidentified man open fire in the parking lot, and then take off.
Officers already arrested one suspect, 18-year-old Terrell Washington. They say he is firing near Gaines' car.
"It's bad that you can't come to the store and get you a soda or whatever and get killed," said Valerie McGee.
McGee visits the store almost daily. While she doesn't know much about last week's shooting, she knows others may be keeping quiet about the identity of the gunman, out of fear.
"Maybe cause you may get shot the same way too," said McGee.
It's making it difficult for police to solve not only this crime, but any other gang related crime just like it.
There's a standard answer when police and reporters start asking questions in this kind of neighborhood.
"I don't know nothing, I don't see nothing, I don't hear nothing, get away from my door," said one man who didn't want to be identified.
So while an innocent bystander dies in the midst of violence, there's an unwillingness to talk, for one main reason.
"Everybody knows the code on the streets, you snitch you die. Point blank," said the man.
So investigators are hoping this surveillance video will give them the lead they need to arrest another suspect. They hope the public will be forthcoming with information.
