Suspect arrested in Modesto double shooting that left one person dead in March
Modesto Police on Wednesday arrested a man who’d been wanted since March in connection with a double shooting that left one person dead.
The suspect, 21-year-old Demetreo Knox, was apprehended recently while crossing the border into California from Mexico, said Modesto police Sgt. Kalani Souza. Modesto Police Detectives retrieved him from a detention facility in San Diego and on Wednesday booked him into the Stanislaus County Jail on suspicion of murder and assault with a firearm.
The shooting occurred on March 7 in the area of East Coolidge Avenue and Water Street, southeast of Briggsmore Avenue and Coffee Road.
One of the shooting victims made his way to Coffee and East Orangeburg Avenue, where the police were dispatched for a report of a person shot.
Officers found the victim, who survived, but soon heard screaming coming from a few blocks away.
Simultaneously, dispatchers began getting calls of a fight and the sounds of shots heard from the area of East Coolidge and Water.
There, officers found 23-year-old Clive Stewart suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He died at the scene.
Detectives arrested a suspect, 21-year-old Jon McDonald III, that night. About a week later a warrant was also issued for Knox.
Souza did not release any details about the motive for the shooting or whether both McDonald and Knox fired weapons.
This story was originally published May 27, 2021 at 12:17 PM.
