Crime & Safety

Woman, Dog Shot To Death Inside Santa Rosa Home In Apparent Targeted Killing, Police Say

A woman was shot dead inside her Santa Rosa home early Tuesday morning in what appears to be a targeted killing, police said.

September 10, 2025

A woman was shot dead inside her Santa Rosa home early Tuesday morning in what appears to be a targeted killing, police said.

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The shooting happened at a two-story house on Cecilia Drive, just north of W. 3rd Street between Stony Point Road and N. Dutton Avenue. The Santa Rosa Police Department said on a social media post that officers responded at about 4:30 a.m. to reports of a shooting at or near the home.

When they arrived, officers found an open back gate and a rear sliding glass door that had been shattered, police said. After no one responded from inside the home, a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy deployed a drone inside the house, which showed a dead dog with a gunshot wound and a second injured dog that had also been shot, police said.

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