A Northern California man killed his wife in a Garden Grove home before driving up to Stockton, authorities said, where he shot and injured a man before turning a gun on himself.
Garden Grove police were called just after 8 a.m. Thursday, July 17, to a home in the 11500 block of Morgan Lane, just south of Orangewood Avenue, after receiving requests for a welfare check, Sgt. Nick Jensen said.
Crystal Gonzalez of Lodi, 37, was found dead inside the home, Jensen said. The couple’s two children were found inside unharmed and unaware of what exactly happened.
How Gonzalez died was not disclosed by police.
Police identified the suspect as Gonzalez’s husband, Miguel Lopez, 35, who they say was seen leaving the home early Thursday. The neighborhood of single-family homes sits less than a mile south of Disneyland.
The family was in a short-term rental for the house. Police did not know what, if any, plans the family had during their stay.
The Stockton Police Department told Garden Grove police that Lopez was involved in a shooting in its jurisdiction.
CBS News reported Lopez shot another man at a gym in Stockton then shot himself. Stockton police did not identify Lopez as the shooter, only that the shooter was 35 and had died.
That victim, a 55-year-old man, was hospitalized, police said.
Lopez was a former California Highway Patrol officer who last worked with the department in 2022, the network reported.
Whether the two men knew each other was unclear.
Friday, Jensen said investigators had not found any criminal history for Lopez and motives for the shootings were not known.