LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The man wanted in connection to a fatal Wednesday night shooting in Middletown has been taken into custody.
Sheriff Brian Martin identified the man alleged to have carried out the shooting as Javier Martinez.
Martin could not immediately confirm Martinez's age or place of residence.
Shortly before 10:20 p.m. radio reports indicated that Martinez went to the Clearlake Police Department and turned himself in to police.
Martinez was wanted for the fatal shooting of another man that was reported at around 8:30 p.m. in the area of Butts Canyon and Guenoc roads near Middletown, as Lake County News has reported.
The man who died was in a vehicle with a female subject who also was reported to have been injured, based on radio reports.
Martinez was reported to have fled the scene in a silver SUV.
From there, sheriff's deputies began to track Martinez, with radio reports indicating that they had been looking for him in Clearlake before he surrendered himself to police there.
Martin said he did not yet know a motive for the shooting.
The California Highway reported shortly before 9:45 p.m. that Butts Canyon Road was closed from Highway 29 to the Napa County line, around the shooting scene.
Additional information will be posted when it becomes available.
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