Man shot to death in Ventura County

Oxnard Police are tring to figure out what led to a fatal shooting in the city Sunday.
Lance Orozco

Oxnard Police detectives think it may have been gang related.

Detectives are investigating what they believe is a gang-related murder in Ventura County.

Oxnard Police were called to the 1200 block of West Gonzales Road early Sunday morning by reports of a shooting. Officers found a man on the ground with a gunshot wound. Efforts to save him were unsuccessful.

Investigators later identified him as John Paul Carrillo. They say the 20-year-old man was from Oxnard.

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Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.