Gunfire broke out near a McDonald's on the 3500 block of Bradshaw Road at Old Placerville Road on Thursday, with deputies confirming that someone opened fire on a group of people but no one was injured. The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office has not said whether a suspect has been identified or released details about what led up to the shooting.
According to CBS Sacramento, deputies are still investigating the incident, which unfolded in the unincorporated Rosemont community along a stretch of Bradshaw Road known for its retail corridor and heavy foot and vehicle traffic. The station reports that authorities have not disclosed what sparked the gunfire or whether it was aimed at a specific person. That leaves open questions about whether the shooting was a targeted act or something more indiscriminate, and what dispute, if any, triggered it.
Rosemont's Jurisdictional Patchwork
The stretch of Bradshaw Road where the shooting happened sits in Rosemont, a census-designated community bounded by Folsom Boulevard, Jackson Highway, South Watt Avenue, and Bradshaw Road itself, according to J&Y Law. The area sits between the incorporated cities of Sacramento and Rancho Cordova but isn't part of either, meaning law enforcement patrol falls to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office East Patrol Division. The division operates out of Kilgore Road under a joint command structure with the Rancho Cordova Police Department, per the Rancho Cordova Independent, and covers eastern unincorporated pockets of the county including Rosemont, Mather, and Gold River.
The commercial stretch around Bradshaw Road and Old Placerville Road, where light rail connections and retail storefronts draw steady traffic, has also been part of broader multi-corridor traffic safety and beautification planning by local agencies, according to the City of Rancho Cordova.
A History of Violence Along the Same Corridor
This isn't the first time gunfire has drawn sheriff's investigators to the Bradshaw Road area. In January 2025, homicide detectives responded to a double fatal shooting inside a home on Sutterwoods Way, also near Bradshaw Road in Rosemont, after emergency crews discovered two people dead from gunshot wounds during a welfare check.
Thursday's shooting also wasn't the only gunfire that kept sheriff's deputies busy across the county. The same day, a verbal argument at a Sam's Club escalated into a car-to-car shooting outside a South Sacramento Costco, critically injuring a man before the suspect fled, Hoodline previously reported. Together, the two incidents illustrate how sheriff's deputies are still responding to multiple firearm calls across county jurisdiction even as overall violence trends downward.
Homicides Hit a 55-Year Low, But Shootings Persist
Unincorporated Sacramento County recorded just 18 homicides in 2025, its lowest annual total in 55 years, according to CBS News. Sheriff Jim Cooper attributed part of the decline to targeted enforcement and firearm seizures by the department's Gang Unit, even as the county's population topped 1.6 million. The adjacent City of Sacramento, which is patrolled separately by municipal police rather than county deputies, recorded 42 homicides in 2025, down from 45 the year before, the same CBS News report notes.
Those numbers offer some context for a shooting that, while frightening for bystanders near the McDonald's, did not result in the kind of casualty figures that have historically plagued parts of the county. Still, the lack of injuries doesn't reduce the potential legal exposure for whoever fired the weapon.
What Charges Could Follow
If investigators determine someone intentionally fired toward the group, California Penal Code Section 245(a)(2) makes assault with a firearm a wobbler offense, carrying state prison terms of two, three, or four years for standard firearms and three, six, or nine years if a semiautomatic weapon was used, according to FindLaw. Pointing or firing a loaded weapon toward someone with the present ability to strike them can constitute assault under that statute regardless of whether anyone was hit.
If the gunfire instead proves to have been reckless but without proven intent to hit a specific person, Penal Code Section 246.3 covers willfully discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent manner that could result in injury or death, a wobbler that carries up to a year in county jail as a misdemeanor or up to three years in state prison as a felony, per Justia Law. And if investigators find the shots came from inside a moving vehicle, Penal Code Section 26100(c) classifies that as a felony punishable by three, five, or seven years in state prison, Hoodline has reported. None of those determinations have been made public, and the Sheriff's Office has not indicated which, if any, charges are being pursued.
