CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – An early Thursday morning shooting at the Elem Indian Colony reportedly left several people injured, with one fatality also reported in connection to the incident.

The shooting was first reported just before 2:30 a.m., according to radio reports.

Northshore Fire and Lake County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to a location on Elem Road in the Elem Colony, located just outside of Clearlake Oaks.

Initial reports indicated one person had been shot in the chest with a shotgun and another was wounded in the arm.

Firefighters had to stage outside of the rancheria while sheriff's deputies secured the scene, according to radio reports.

Central Dispatch relayed to firefighters that one gunshot victim had driven herself to the hospital while the person responsible for the shooting also was reported to have left the scene in a vehicle.

Firefighters later reported finding two gunshot victims – one of them a 6-year-old girl – at the Elem Colony and transporting them to St. Helena Hospital Clear Lake, where air ambulances responded to fly the patients to out-of-county trauma centers.

Radio reports also stated that there was one person who had died at the rancheria.

Early Thursday deputies were reported to still be looking for a male subject believed to have committed the shooting.

Additional details will be posted as they become available.

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