Sacramento Bee: Sacramento Rep. Doris Matsui mourns victims; calls on House to ‘come together and act’

Rep. Doris Matsui led a moment of silence on the House floor Monday to mourn the six killed in Sacramento’s deadly mass shooting, calling on Congress to “come together and act” to prevent the next tragedy.

“This terrible violence has come home – to my home of Sacramento. Our Sacramento community is hurting. This tragedy has touched every single one of us,” Matsui said, surrounded by her Congressional colleagues. “Right now, we are bound in grief, in love, but also in our resolve to do better. We cannot go on accepting that shootings like this are inevitable.”

The Sacramento congresswoman read the names of the three women and three men shot dead just before 2 a.m. Sunday near 10th and K Street in Sacramento’s deadliest mass shooting:

Sergio Harris, 38; Melinda Davis, 57; Yamile Martinez-Andrade, 21; Johntaya Alexander, 21; DeVazia Turner, 29; and Joshua Hoye-Lucchesi, 32. Another 12 people were wounded in the barrage.

Dandrae Martin, 26, was arrested as a “related suspect,” the Sacramento Police Department announced in a statement shortly before noon Monday.

Martin is in custody at Sacramento County Main Jail, held on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, illegal possession of a firearm by a felon; as well as an outstanding warrant out of Riverside County. He is slated to be arraigned Tuesday in Sacramento Superior Court.

“If we can prevent even one more tragedy like this, spare other families and communities from feeling this pain — then we have to come together and act,” Matsui said. “We cannot and will not be passive in the face of such senseless violence.”

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