No thanks: Four homicides, one self-mutilation mar Sacramento’s long Thanksgiving weekend

Four homicides and one grisly self-mutilation marred the long Thanksgiving holiday in Sacramento.

On Saturday, an 18-year-old woman was found lying on a North Highlands street bleeding from what ended up being a fatal gunshot wound to her upper torso. According to a Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department release, detectives believe the victim was sitting in a parked vehicle with two men when a handgun went off. The two men stayed at the scene for questioning, the release states. It remained unclear Tuesday whether the shooting was accidental or deliberate, but no arrests had been announced.

That same day in another part of the county, 24-year-old Myron Sarahn Dailey surrendered to city police officers responding to a shooting near John F. Kennedy High School in the Pocket neighborhood. Police found an unresponsive adult male lying in the roadway on Gloria Drive and Florin Road. Fire personnel pronounced him dead. Police say a canvas of the area led them to a nearby apartment complex where they located Dailey, whom they believe fatally shot the unidentified victim following an argument.

Police say Dailey surrendered peacefully. He remained in jail custody Tuesday on a felony murder charge.

A suspected suicide closed a stalker-murder investigation on November 25, when sheriff’s deputies serving a search warrant at a city of Sacramento home found the body of 37-year-old Gildardo Llamas Ramos. Ramos was the suspect in the November 23 killing of his ex-girlfriend, Jessica Chavez, 28, of Antelope. Chavez had just arrived home and exited her parked car that Wednesday night when, investigators believe, Ramos shot her in the head. A dark-colored SUV was seen fleeing the scene. Homicide detectives were in the process of serving a search warrant at a residence in the 3600 block of 43rd Street when they found a man they believe to be Ramos, dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police are still looking for the person responsible for the death of Tina Louisa Morales, 48, of Sacramento one day earlier. Morales’ body was discovered in a motel room at Best Western John Jay Inn on Massie Court by staff approximately 40 minutes past checkout time the morning of November 25. According to a police department news release, motel staff flagged down nearby officers, who discovered that Morales had suffered head trauma.

According to the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office, Morales had four adult daughters.

On Thanksgiving Day, an erratic 911 call from a male who said he was angry with cops brought sheriff’s deputies to a 7-Eleven convenience store in Carmichael, where a teenager plunged a knife into his own neck.

A sheriff’s release says deputies first tried to establish a dialogue with Logan Ron Augustine, 17, of West Sacramento, but that the youth retreated behind an aisle and claimed to have a gun when deputies entered the store.

When Augustine reappeared, he was holding a knife instead, and used it to stab himself in the neck, drawing enough blood “as if he struck an artery,” the release states. One deputy fired a rubber bullet in a failed attempt to incapacitate Augustine, but the teen “remained armed and became more agitated.”

A sheriff’s sergeant with 27 years on the job then fired one round from his gun, though the sheriff’s department hasn’t disclosed whether he struck anything. The teen was later pronounced dead at the scene. The sheriff’s department will investigate the officer-involved shooting.