SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man was arrested on suspicion of assault, but not for killing a man in a shooting during a Grant Union High School football game, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
Ronzell Belton , 18, was arrested on Sunday, Oct. 23. The Sacramento Police Department said Belton is believed to have assaulted the man who died with a firearm before the shooting.
Police said the shooting occurred after a disturbance in the high school's parking lot involving around 20 people, not believed to be students, sometime before the football game ended.
Alfred Ayodele Myah was identified as the man killed in the shooting at Grant Union High School, according to Sacramento County Coroner's Office logs.
The person suspected of shooting and killing Myah is still outstanding, according to police.
None of the estimated 2,000 people in the stands watching the game were affected by the violence outside, according to Greg Jefferson, President of the Del Paso Heights Community Association and announcer for the football game.
According to the Sacramento Police Department's Year to Date Statistics, there were 57 total homicides in 2021 with 50 reported by October. This year, the city is now at its 50th reported homicide with two months still left in 2022.
Homicides have continued to go up since 2020, data shows. Sacramento Police reported a 29% increase in homicide-related deaths between the year 2020 and 2021, with the year 2020 ending with 44 homicides and 2021 ending with 57 homicides.
The Sacramento Police Department is looking into the homicide and is asking anyone with information to call investigators at (916) 808-5471.
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