Ex-guard suspected of adding a fifth victim in Sacramento

SacBee.com ^ | Sept. 9, 2001 - 11:33 p.m. | Editor

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Police said Joseph Ferguson, already suspected in the shooting deaths of four people, killed a fifth person Sunday night in Sacramento's Lincoln Village neighborhood and then escaped in the victim's car.

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Yikes! I was fishing the Sacramento River all Sunday morning and the Police 'chopper kept circling overhead. I hadn't heard of this LATEST mass murder in Sacrificemento! This is getting creapy! Helter Skelter!

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Ah...forget it..He's ah...no longer a problem.

Go here to read the action posted as it happened.

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I used to live 1/2 a mile from Lincoln village. Shootings and random gun fire are common there. It got lots worse after Clintoon closed Mather AFB and downsized the defense industries. What I hear from others that escaped to other parts of Scaramento is it is still a pit, and never bounced back after the base closure.

I still remember gripping a 9mm at a stop light after witnessing a drive buy shooting. The shooter car pulled along side my pickup and I told companion to look straight ahead. The Barneys were all on strike that weekend, so we didn't even bother to report it.