How to resolve AdBlock issue? KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Investigators were working at the scene of a Kelseyville shooting late Sunday afternoon as the victim in the incident was taken to an out-of-county trauma center.
The shooting was first reported just after 1 p.m. Sunday in the 10000 block of Fairway Drive near Sierra Drive in the Clear Lake Riviera.
The victim, identified to Lake County News by his family as 20-year-old Clearlake resident Steven Farnan, was shot in the face.
A witness told Lake County News that Farnan was involved in a physical fight with a male subject when another male subject got out of a vehicle and shot Farnan, hitting him in the front of the jaw.
The suspects then fled the scene in the vehicle, described as a blue hatchback, possibly a late 1990s model Hyundai, according to a be on the lookout issued Sunday afternoon.
Kelseyville and Lake County Fire Protection District firefighters transported Farnan to a nearby fire station before taking him to Sutter Lakeside Hospital.
Later in the afternoon he was flown by REACH air ambulance to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. His family reported that the bullet shattered his jaw, went down his neck and hit a main artery.
Sheriff's detectives had an area of Fairway Drive taped off on Sunday afternoon as the investigation continued.
While detectives walked the scene and took photographs, a young friend of Farnan’s silently sat in the street.
Lake County News will continue to post additional details as they become available.
John Jensen contributed to this report.
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