Victims named in Ventura shooting and Highway 118 hit-and-run

Name of shooting victim

Authorities have released the name of a man shot and killed in Ventura Saturday evening.

Ventura resident Jonathan Sanchez was 35 years old, the Ventura County medical examiner's office reported. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds and the circumstances were homicide, the medical examiner determined.

The Ventura Police Department received a call around 10:45 p.m. Saturday that a shooting had occurred in the 100 block of West Simpson Street on the city's west side. Officers arrived minutes later and provided emergency medical aid, as did firefighters and paramedics, before Sanchez was taken to hospital, where he later died.

The initial police investigation revealed that the attacker approached Sanchez, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a vehicle, shot him and fled on foot. The attacker was described as wearing all black. No other identifying information has been released.