LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – A man alleged to have shot his estranged wife's companion before severely beating the woman has had a bail enhancement placed on him, while doctors are working to prepare the shooting victim for surgery.
The Lake County Sheriff's Office reported on Monday that detectives succeeded in having the bail for 38-year-old Andrew James Serrano raised to $1 million.
Andrew Serrano is accused of shooting 41-year-old Kelseyville resident William Turner and assaulting his estranged wife Lesa Serrano during a confrontation on the afternoon of Saturday, Sept. 10, as Lake County News has reported.
A sheriff's office report on the shooting released Monday said that the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch received a 911 call just before 12:30 p.m. Saturday from Turner, who told the dispatcher he had been shot in the chest.
Information that law enforcement received in the initial calls to 911 indicated that Andrew Serrano allegedly had beaten Lesa Serrano, and had her by the hair, holding a gun to her head.
Sheriff's deputies and a Lakeport Police officer immediately responded to the Serranos' residence at 3050 Big Valley Road in Kelseyville, where they encountered Andrew Serrano with a gun in his hand, the sheriff's office reported.
At the deputies' order Serrano dropped the gun and was detained on site, the sheriff's office reported.
Turner was located just inside the garage with an apparent gunshot wound to his chest, according to the sheriff's report. A REACH helicopter was called in and arrived within minutes, landing in a field near the home and transporting Turner to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
The sheriff's report said deputies found Lesa Serrano bruised and bleeding, but able to speak to deputies.
She told deputies that she had come to the residence with Turner to pick up some personal items when Andrew Serrano showed up at the residence and an argument ensued, according to the report.
Sheriff's detectives obtained a search warrant for the Big Valley Road property and arrived on site to secure the area, the report stated.
Serrano is being held at the Lake County Jail on felony charges of attempted murder, inflicting corporal punishment, assault with a firearm, committing a felony while armed, terrorizing and battery with serious bodily injury, and misdemeanor counts of violation of a domestic violence restraining order and false imprisonment.
Serrano was arrested in July after ramming his pickup into Lesa Serrano's SUV in an incident that occurred in Lakeport, as Lake County News has reported. At that point he also violated a domestic violence restraining order.
On Monday Turner was reported to be in stable condition and slowly recovering after having spent a day in Santa Rosa Memorial's intensive care unit, according to a Facebook page his family set up on Sunday in his honor, “Pray for Willy Turner,” https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pray-for-Willy-Turner/274420952585517?sk=wall.
By Monday evening nearly 650 people had “liked” the new page.
Doctors have been working to stop internal bleeding in Turner's chest before conducting surgery to remove the bullet. Family members reported that Sunday was particularly difficult for Turner due to the pain.
According to the page, on Monday Turner was doing better. He was awake, talking and joking.
Turner could possibly undergo surgery on Tuesday, the Facebook page said.
The sheriff's office asks that anyone with information on the case contact Det. Mike Curran at 707-262- 4232.
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