SAN BERNARDINO – Police on Sunday continued their investigation into the fatal shooting of a San Bernardino father of seven and the wounding of his girlfriend and another woman.
Harold “Hook” Cook, 49, died at the scene. His girlfriend of seven years, Dawn “Chocolate” Sutton, 36, was reportedly in critical condition and given a 10 percent chance of survival by doctors, Cook’s children said Sunday.
The third victim, Ellen Wimbish, 55, also suffered gunshot wounds, but the injuries were not life-threatening, said her husband of 38 years, Dale Wimbish, on Sunday.
A motive for the shooting was not known Sunday, and no suspects had been identified.
It was the 46th homicide in San Bernardino this year.
Two or three people, reportedly walking north on G Street, passed the apartment complex, stopped, and started shooting at the victims, who were in the driveway.
Detectives gathered more than a dozen spent shell casings of different caliber from the crime scene.
“There is evidence that multiple weapons were used,” San Bernardino police Lt. Rich Lawhead said.
The gunfire erupted shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday at the two-building, six-unit apartment complex in the 900 block of North G Street, north of Ninth Street.
Resident Irene Wilson had just exited her apartment when the gunshots started.
“They started blasting. I ducked because I had just walked outside my apartment,” said Wilson, 62, who has lived at the complex for 12 years.
After Saturday, Wilson said she was having second thoughts about continuing to live there since the shooting occurred right outside her apartment. A bullet hole pocked the stucco wall above her living room window.
“It’s time to go. This was too close to home,” Wilson said.