Sierra County Sheriff’s deputies searching for shooter who killed 1, injured 2 others

Sierra County deputies are searching for a missing boy and a shooter who injured two and killed one Friday afternoon.

In a news release, the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies were called out to a shooting involving two victims in a remote area in the northwestern reaches of the county around 4 p.m. The western portion of the county resides in the heart of the Sierra Nevada, is sparsely populated and densely wooded.

Deputies were told while en route to the area that both victims were being driven from the scene of the shooting. They made it out to the Cal-Ida area, where they were given first aid and were later flown by helicopter to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Deputies received another call afterward regarding a third victim in the same remote area. The caller, a minor, fled from the shooter and became lost in the mountains.

Sheriff’s deputies found the third victim dead at the scene of the shooting. Investigators with several agencies initiated a manhunt for both the lost minor and the shooter, who was still at large as of Saturday morning.

Anyone with information regarding the shooting is asked to call the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office at 530-289-3700.