Coroner IDs Watsonville Shooting Victim

WATSONVILLE, CA — The Santa Cruz County coroner has identified the shooting victim pronounced dead last weekend after an attack earlier this month.

Daniel Godinez, 46, was found shortly after midnight on Feb. 13, in the area of the levee at Front and Walker streets, down an embankment near a campsite, according to Watsonville police and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office. He was suffering from at least two gunshot wounds that left him seriously hurt. He was hospitalized at a trauma center, police said.

That shooting was one of three reported in a two-day span that weekend.

Around 11:30 p.m. that same night, police responded to a report of a shooting in the 300 block of Madison Street, where shell casings and bullet holes were found outside of a home and two parked cars, police said. There were no injuries.

Another shooting was reported shortly after 2 a.m. Feb. 15 in the 100 block of Tharp Avenue. A 30-year-old man in a car was shot multiple times and was hospitalized at a trauma center, police said. He was expected to survive.

All three cases remain under investigation and no arrests had been made as of earlier this week.

Anyone with information is urged to call Detective Salvador Mendoza at 831-768-3357 or the anonymous tip line at 831-768-3544.