A 32-year-old woman was sitting in her vehicle near Caribrook Way and Calandria Street in Stockton Thursday night when gunfire erupted around her, striking her car and several other nearby vehicles. She was not hit. Police say several male suspects opened fire before fleeing the scene, leaving behind a stretch of damaged cars and a neighborhood once again grappling with gunfire on its streets.
Shots Fired Shortly Before 9:15 p.m.
According to SFGATE, Stockton police reported that the shooting was called in shortly before 9:15 p.m. near the Caribrook Way and Calandria Street intersection. Gunfire struck the woman's vehicle along with several nearby unoccupied vehicles, but she was not struck. Police said several male suspects opened fire in the area and then fled, and so far have not released any detailed descriptions of them.
Part of a Broader Pattern of Vehicle-Involved Shootings
Thursday's incident fits a pattern seen elsewhere in Stockton, where people sitting in parked cars have repeatedly ended up in the line of fire. In one case detailed by FOX40, police responded around 9:30 p.m. on a Friday to a shooting in the 3100 block of East Main Street, where an 18-year-old man was waiting in his vehicle while friends were inside a nearby business. Gunfire struck both him and his car, and he was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Another Stockton shooting, reported by KCRA, described a shootout that erupted shortly before midnight in the 400 block of Caribrook Way, in which bullets struck at least one home and one car. That incident killed 19-year-old Alexander Mahan, whose death was identified as the city's 39th suspected homicide of 2012.
Homicides Spiked in June, Though Yearly Totals Have Eased
City-level data compiled by Stocktonia shows the volatility behind these individual incidents. The outlet reported that Stockton recorded seven homicides in June 2026, compared with just one in June 2025, a sharp single-month spike even as police classified 16 deaths as homicides in the first six months of 2026, down from 18 over the same stretch in 2025. Non-fatal shootings also ticked down year over year, with 43 recorded through that period in 2026 compared to 48 during the same span in 2025, per Stocktonia's reporting.
Those citywide numbers offer some context for Thursday's shooting without explaining it: even as overall homicide and non-fatal shooting counts have modestly declined compared to last year, individual incidents like the one near Caribrook Way and Calandria Street continue to put residents in the path of gunfire with little warning. Police had not released detailed suspect descriptions as of Friday.
