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Shooting in Oxnard and separate accident lead to injuries

Separate incidents occurred in Oxnard on Thursday evening following a shooting and a collision between a bicycle and a car, requiring victims to be taken to hospitals.

In connection with the shooting incident, Oxnard police received a series of calls beginning at 9:12 p.m. about multiple reports of gunshots heard in the 500 block of Cuesta Del Mar Drive. Minutes later, police received additional calls about a single-vehicle traffic accident with injuries at Rose and Emerson Avenue, about 3 miles away. The callers told police that one of the people in the vehicle had been shot.

Officers found a 17-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to the neck in the traffic accident. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she underwent emergency surgery. Her condition is stable. Two other passengers were uninjured.