BAKERSFIELD, CA -- Three teens were shot in east Bakersfield Tuesday morning, two of which were juveniles.
With the suspect still at large, sheriff's deputies are asking for the public's help.
Deputies say all three were transported to Kern Medical Center and should survive but neighbors say that doesn't make what happened okay.
It's a sound these neighbors hoped never to hear a man in pain. It's the result of another sound heard throughout an east Bakersfield neighborhood Tuesday morning, gunshots.
"All I heard when I was cleaning my room was boom boom boom," said Manuel Valdovinos. "That was it that's the first time during the day I heard anything like that."
Witnesses say the three teens were walking down the street around 9 a.m. here at the intersection of Flower and Brown when someone in a passing car opened fire.
"There were people walking past and then people started running and screaming," said Carmine Morgan who lives across the street from where the shooting started.
Deputies say a 19-year-old, a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old were shot then ran in different directions. A 16-year-old with a bullet in the leg ran to Flower and Williams Street.
A 17-year-old, with wounds to his arms and legs, ran to this market near at Flower and Haley Street where you could still see his torn clothing.
A 19-year-old ran to the corner of Quincy and Brown Street. Carime Morgan had clear shot through her window of the aftermath.
"I saw a young black male running past me to the south and he had been shot," said Morgan.
According to deputies the 19-year-old was shot in the head and arm.
"I noticed part of his face was messed up and he was begging for help," said Morgan.
While treatment arrived, deputies searched overhead and on the ground for a suspect.
The situation cleared up within hours as the 19-year-old and the two other victims were transported to Kern Medical Center but stains and pains still remain from this New Year's Eve shooting.
"I never want to see again because it was horrible and it was terrible to see people walking the street and get shot down like they did," said Morgan.
The suspect is described at a black man, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt driving a silver full size four door sedan.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at 861-3110 or the Secret Witness hotline at 322-4040.
We were unable ask the Sheriff's Department if this shooting was gang related or related to any other recent shootings because the department did not provide a spokesperson.
With the suspect still at large, sheriff's deputies are asking for the public's help.
Deputies say all three were transported to Kern Medical Center and should survive but neighbors say that doesn't make what happened okay.
It's a sound these neighbors hoped never to hear a man in pain. It's the result of another sound heard throughout an east Bakersfield neighborhood Tuesday morning, gunshots.
"All I heard when I was cleaning my room was boom boom boom," said Manuel Valdovinos. "That was it that's the first time during the day I heard anything like that."
Witnesses say the three teens were walking down the street around 9 a.m. here at the intersection of Flower and Brown when someone in a passing car opened fire.
"There were people walking past and then people started running and screaming," said Carmine Morgan who lives across the street from where the shooting started.
Deputies say a 19-year-old, a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old were shot then ran in different directions. A 16-year-old with a bullet in the leg ran to Flower and Williams Street.
A 17-year-old, with wounds to his arms and legs, ran to this market near at Flower and Haley Street where you could still see his torn clothing.
A 19-year-old ran to the corner of Quincy and Brown Street. Carime Morgan had clear shot through her window of the aftermath.
"I saw a young black male running past me to the south and he had been shot," said Morgan.
According to deputies the 19-year-old was shot in the head and arm.
"I noticed part of his face was messed up and he was begging for help," said Morgan.
While treatment arrived, deputies searched overhead and on the ground for a suspect.
The situation cleared up within hours as the 19-year-old and the two other victims were transported to Kern Medical Center but stains and pains still remain from this New Year's Eve shooting.
"I never want to see again because it was horrible and it was terrible to see people walking the street and get shot down like they did," said Morgan.
The suspect is described at a black man, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt driving a silver full size four door sedan.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff's office at 861-3110 or the Secret Witness hotline at 322-4040.
We were unable ask the Sheriff's Department if this shooting was gang related or related to any other recent shootings because the department did not provide a spokesperson.