Minutes before midnight one day in July, 17-year-old John McGee was killed on Del Paso Boulevard after being shot in the torso. Weeks before, 16-year-old Zachary Whittington was gunned down by a friend in a Carmichael apartment building. About one month later, Christian Matu of Antelope died at age 18 after sustaining “multiple gunshot wounds” while in a South Natomas neighborhood.
These were only half of the six teenage murders recorded in Sacramento County last year, according to information provided by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office. Four of the killings occurred in the city of Sacramento and two in areas patrolled by the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office. Each incident involved a gun.
