Attempted murder in Hoopa

Sheriffs looking for Chevy pickup truck

Humboldt Sentinel staff
6/29/09

Hoopa

Deputies are looking for a Chevy pickup truck involved in a late night attempted murder which left a woman shot in the face.

According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office release, deputies were called to a residence on Masten Flat off of Pine Creek Road at 11:30 p.m. yesterday, where they discovered a woman lying in the yard with a single gunshot wound in her face.

The victim, Kodi Elainna Downs, was hospitalized in critical condition -- but not before speaking to deputies about the incident. She reported hearing a woman’s voice from the passenger side of a truck which pulled up alongside her as she was walking to a friend’s house on Masten Flat. Downs was shot before being able to identify the woman, however, and the truck pulled away.

The HCSO is looking for a tan or brown four-door Chevy pickup, with the model year somewhere between 1998 and 2002. Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call sergeant Wayne Hanson at (707) 268-3639.