The neighborhoods may be different, but the sidewalk scenes are the same.
Flowers. Candles. Makeshift crosses spotted with handwritten notes. Grieving friends and relatives standing in remembrance of a lost life.
The most recent backdrop of grief is in North Highlands, where on a residential street corner the friends of Joseph Zachary Gomez spent most of Thursday mourning an 18-year-old man gunned down in front of his aunt's home the night before.
Sheriff's investigators said Gomez was a gang member. His friends and family said he was a decent young man who got caught at the wrong end of his neighborhood's violent side.
"Being a young kid living in North Highlands, you can have enemies just being you," said Leann Epley, Gomez's aunt.
Gomez, who had lived in the neighborhood since he was 5 years old, was the third man shot and killed in Sacramento County in a 45-hour period.
Flowers. Candles. Makeshift crosses spotted with handwritten notes. Grieving friends and relatives standing in remembrance of a lost life.
The most recent backdrop of grief is in North Highlands, where on a residential street corner the friends of Joseph Zachary Gomez spent most of Thursday mourning an 18-year-old man gunned down in front of his aunt's home the night before.
Sheriff's investigators said Gomez was a gang member. His friends and family said he was a decent young man who got caught at the wrong end of his neighborhood's violent side.
"Being a young kid living in North Highlands, you can have enemies just being you," said Leann Epley, Gomez's aunt.
Gomez, who had lived in the neighborhood since he was 5 years old, was the third man shot and killed in Sacramento County in a 45-hour period.
The neighborhoods may be different, but the sidewalk scenes are the same.
Flowers. Candles. Makeshift crosses spotted with handwritten notes. Grieving friends and relatives standing in remembrance of a lost life.
The most recent backdrop of grief is in North Highlands, where on a residential street corner the friends of Joseph Zachary Gomez spent most of Thursday mourning an 18-year-old man gunned down in front of his aunt's home the night before.
Sheriff's investigators said Gomez was a gang member. His friends and family said he was a decent young man who got caught at the wrong end of his neighborhood's violent side.
"Being a young kid living in North Highlands, you can have enemies just being you," said Leann Epley, Gomez's aunt.
Gomez, who had lived in the neighborhood since he was 5 years old, was the third man shot and killed in Sacramento County in a 45-hour period.
Flowers. Candles. Makeshift crosses spotted with handwritten notes. Grieving friends and relatives standing in remembrance of a lost life.
The most recent backdrop of grief is in North Highlands, where on a residential street corner the friends of Joseph Zachary Gomez spent most of Thursday mourning an 18-year-old man gunned down in front of his aunt's home the night before.
Sheriff's investigators said Gomez was a gang member. His friends and family said he was a decent young man who got caught at the wrong end of his neighborhood's violent side.
"Being a young kid living in North Highlands, you can have enemies just being you," said Leann Epley, Gomez's aunt.
Gomez, who had lived in the neighborhood since he was 5 years old, was the third man shot and killed in Sacramento County in a 45-hour period.
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