Drive-by at ABC10 lobby in Sacramento leads to federal charges

A Sacramento man was arrested Saturday in connection with a daytime driveby shooting that sent bullets into the lobby of ABC10 KXTV on Broadway but left no one injured, police and federal authorities said. Officers arrested 63 or 64-year-old Anibal Hernandez Santana after investigators identified a vehicle linked to the attack, which occurred just after 1:30 p.m. on Friday.

Sacramento Police said a person in a passing car fired multiple rounds at the station, striking the lobby window three times. Surveillance footage and vehicle traces led investigators to a residence in the 5400 block of Carlson Drive, where Hernandez Santana was taken into custody. Initial booking records and local law enforcement statements described him under state charges of assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into an occupied building and negligent discharge of a firearm.

Tegna, the parent company of ABC10, said in a statement that all employees were safe and unharmed, that the company is fully cooperating with law enforcement and that it has taken additional security measures. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was briefed on the shooting, called any act of violence toward journalists an attack on democracy,...