2 held after Sacramento County sheriff’s parking enforcement officer shot at in Arden Arcade

A Sacramento County sheriff’s parking enforcement officer was shot at with a BB gun and a pellet rifle while on duty Monday in an Arden Arcade residential neighborhood.

The shooting was reported shortly before 11 a.m. in the 2000 block of Wyda Way, just west of Howe Avenue and north of Alta Arden Expressway.

Sgt. Amar Gandhi, a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, said the officer was not injured. He said the parking officer was inside a sheriff’s vehicle when the shots struck a window on the vehicle.

Gandhi said investigators identified a vehicle from where they believed the shots were fired. The vehicle had received a parking citation earlier, he said. The sheriff’s spokesman said investigators found that vehicle and detained a 26-year-old man and 22-year-old man for questioning.

Investigators later determined that the arrested suspects fired a BB gun and a pellet rifle at the parking officer’s vehicle, Gandhi said.

Investigators arrested the two detained men, Gandhi said. The men remained in custody Tuesday morning at the Sacramento County Jail. They were both arrested on suspicion assault with a deadly weapon or instrument and criminal conspiracy, jail records show. Their bail amount was set at $50,000 each and scheduled to appear for their arraignment hearing Wednesday afternoon.

The parking enforcement officer is a civilian unarmed sheriff’s employee, Gandhi said. Parking officers drive white vehicles with Sheriff’s Office insignia and orange emergency lights. He said the parking enforcement vehicles are “very clearly different from a sheriff’s patrol vehicle.”

New information has become available since this story was first published. This story has been updated.