## Surveillance video captures portion of King City deadly shooting of teen

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Updated: 6:25 PM PST Mar 3, 2025

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WE'VE GOT VIDEO THAT CAPTURES THE GUNFIRE.. SOME OF YOU MIGHT FIND IT DISTURBING.. SURVEILLANCE VIDEO OBTAINED BY ACTION NEWS.. CAPTURES THE BRUTALITY OF FRIDAY NIGHT'S SHOOTING DEATH OF A 17 YEAR OLD KING CITY TEEN.. THE KILLERS FIREING MORE THAN A DOZEN ROUNDS AT THE TEENAGER.. SECONDS LATER YOU CAN SEE THREE PERSONS RUNNING FROM THE SCENE.. WITHIN HOURS 5 PEOPLE ARE IN CUSTODY.. 20 YEAR OLD ADRIAN JUAREZ AND 4 JUVENILES.. THE YOUNGEST, JUST 15 YEARS OLD.. THE VICTIM WAS IDENTIFED MONDAY AS CHRISTIAN HERNANDEZ.. AND POLICE SAY ALL HIS ACCUSED KILLERS ARE FROM GREENFIELD.. WHO MAY HAVE COME TO KING CITY LOOKING FOR RIVAL GANGSTERS.. HERNANDEZ WHO WAS SIMPLY RIDING HIS BIKE MAY HAVE BEEN IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME.. HERNANDEZ WAS SHOT ON 3RD STREET RIGHT ACROSS FROM THIS CATHOLIC CHURCH.. THE ACCUSED KILLERS CAUGHT ON CAMERA NEARBY.. AND THE BRUTAL MURDER COMING JUST 3 DAYS BEFORE THE 1 YEAR MARK OF THE WORST MASS SHOOTING IN MONTEREY COUNTY HISTORY.. 11 PEOPLE SHOT AT A KING CITY BIRTHDAY PARTY.. 4 OF THEM FATALLY.. POLICE BELIEVE THEY DO HAVE ALL THOSE INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING IN CUSTODY.. BUT ADD THIS IS STILL A VERY ACTIVE INVESTIGATION.. IN KING CITY FE

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Surveillance video obtained by Action News 8 captures the brutality of a King City shooting Friday night that left a 17-year-old dead and five people in custody accused of carrying out the murder. The video shows three persons walking down the 500 block of 3rd Street. They eventually walk out of view, and then more than a dozen gunshots can be heard, and the men are again captured on video, this time running from the scene.

Within hours, five people were in custody: 20-year-old Adrian Juarez along with four juveniles, the youngest just 15 years old.

“Unfortunately, you know, it's more and more common we see kids as young as 12 running around, being recruited into the gang lifestyle,” said King City police chief, James Hunt.

The victim was identified Monday as Christian Hernandez, and police say all his accused killers are from Greenfield and may have gone to King City looking for rival gangsters.

Hernandez, who was simply riding his bike, may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“It's been a little bit more common over the last, what year, we've noticed that several of our shootings have been carried out by Norteno gang members that have come into town from Greenfield,” said Hunt.

Hernandez was shot on 3rd street near Ulre, right across the street from a Catholic church.

“It was really unexpected, you know, just Friday night and all the shots, this poor man, and it was shocking to hear what happened,” said German Rodriguez, pastor for the Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist.

The brutal murder came just three days before the 1-year mark of the worst mass shooting in Monterey County history, when 11 people were shot at a King City birthday party on March 3, 2024. Four people died.

“With the mass shooting I buried three of the victims and that's been one of my experiences, you know, to have to bury these poor people and talk with the families and see the pain in their hearts, you know, of what they're going through so it's been very hard for everybody,” said pastor Rodriguez.

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