CA Murder Suspect, Teen Killed In Shootout: 5 Things To Know

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CA — An abducted teenage girl died in a shootout along with her fugitive father this week, just a day after he was accused of killing her mother.

It all began on Monday morning with the death of a 45-year-old mother and ended with the shootout deaths of her 15-year-old daughter and her father on Tuesday.

The incident adds another shocking case of gun violence to California's history in a year in which the state passed a buffet of new gun-restricting laws. Earlier this month, California's Attorney General Rob Bonta Bonta declared the state's gun violence deaths an "epidemic."

Here are five things to know about the tragic case.

1. Woman Shot And Killed Amid Elementary School Drop-Off

A woman was reportedly shot and killed on Monday morning by her estranged husband, who she was in the process of divorcing.

Shots rang out in Fontana on Monday near Cypress Elementary School around 7:30 a.m., where children were being dropped off at school, KTLA reported.

Tracy Martinez, 45, was involved in a domestic dispute with her husband, 45-year-old Anthony John Graziano, in the area when Martinez was fatally shot, according to Fontana police Sgt. Chris Surgent.

A father that was near the school told KTLA that Martinez was driving a van that she crashed during the incident. When she exited her vehicle, she fell to the ground, he told the station. Authorities confirmed that she later died at a hospital.

“They were just having a sticky separation and the kids were stuck in the middle,” family friend Kelly Layne told reporters Tuesday morning, KTLA reported.

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2. Girl Abducted By Her Mother's Killer, According To Investigators

Amid the chaos of Martinez's death, police said Graziano abducted their 15-year-old daughter, Savanna Graziano.

Police said Graziano fled the scene of his wife's fatal shooting and at some point abducted his teenage daughter on Monday in a Nissan Frontier.

An Amber Alert labeled "child abduction" was immediately sent across several counties, describing the father as armed and dangerous.

The alert, deployed by the California Highway Patrol, showed pictures of the white pickup truck, which was spotted by a 911 caller on Tuesday, who reported the truck near Highway 395 in Barstow, San Bernardino County Sheriff Shannon Dicus said.

3. 45-Mile Chase Ends In Shootout

Around 10:45 a.m. on Tuesday, authorities caught up to and began pursuing Graziano and his daughter on I-15 near Los Angeles hours after the pair were spotted in Barstow by a 911-caller.

The pursuit advanced south toward the Victor Valley. Authorities chased the pair for around 45 miles, Dicus said.

Eventually, the pursuit escalated into an exchange of gunfire as the suspect's vehicle went off the road between the freeway and an offramp.

Throughout the chase, Graziano — and possibly his daughter as well — was “constantly shooting back at the deputies” through the truck's rear window, Dicus said.

The shooter put several rounds through a patrol car's windshield and later disabled a second pursuing vehicle, the sheriff said.

The pickup truck became disabled on the shoulder of a highway in the city of Hesperia, and the firefight ensued.

4. Teen Shot While Wearing Tactical Gear As She Ran Toward Police

During the pursuit, the pickup truck became disabled on the shoulder of a highway in the city of Hesperia, but the firefight raged on.

The girl exited the truck's passenger side wearing tactical gear and possibly a "trauma plate" as she ran toward firing sheriff's deputies authorities said.

Dicus said she fell to the ground during the gunfire as the driver remained in the truck. Deputies did not realize it was the girl who was running toward them, he added, because she was wearing a helmet and the trauma plate, a military-style vest that can hold armored plates.

Savanna was pronounced dead shortly before noon.

Her father was found in the driver's seat and pronounced dead at the scene. A rifle was found inside the truck.

One deputy was injured by shrapnel during the firefight, Dicus said.

5. As Family Dies By Gunfire, CA Passes More Gun Laws

The violent deaths of both parents and the 15-year-old girl come as the state continues to pass swaths of gun-restricting laws.

The legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this year includes measures to improve school campus safety, restrict gun possession by people convicted of child abuse or elder abuse, regulation of the sale of firearms and more.

"These new measures will help keep children safe at school, keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people and responsibly regulate the sale of firearms in our communities," Newsom wrote in June.

Senate Bill 1327, signed by the governor in July, was meant to limit the spread of assault weapons and ghost guns. An AR-15 type rifle was found at the scene of Tuesday's shootout, Dicus said.

California has a two-decade ban on the sale and purchase of magazines holding more than 10 bullets. With limited exceptions, the state prohibits residents from possessing assault weapons unless the firearm was purchased before the death it was defined as an assault weapon.

In California, there have been 12,487 deaths related to gun violence since June 2014, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive Wednesday.

The state also became the first state to launch a gun-violence prevention office, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced earlier this month.

Bonta declared the nation's gun violence deaths an "epidemic," and said the new unit will use evidence and data collection to address violence over a "broad range of factors."

"We are in a full-on crisis, full-on state of emergency, and in order to fight this epidemic, it’s going to take new efforts, creative approaches and new action," Bonta said. "That’s why we’re here today."

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.