Shooting in Moss Landing leaves multiple people dead and injured.

On a bright sunny Monday morning, Nov. 2, Mark Pastick was getting ready to cross Jetty Road in Moss Landing over the sand dunes to go surfing at about 8am. Instead, he saw two bodies lying in the road in front of him and a host of law enforcement telling him to get away from the scene. 

A shooting occurred just after midnight, early on Nov. 2, on the road adjoining Moss Landing State Beach, leaving multiple people dead and multiple people injured, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said. 

The agency did not specify how many people were killed and injured. 

At the middle entrance to the other side of the sand dunes, Pastick says he was unable to tell what injuries the men had from their appearance, but he presumes they were dead because they were not moving, and were lying in the middle of the road. 

A nearby resident who declined to give her name to avoid drawing attention from any potential criminal activity says that she heard gunshots, women screaming and cars revving last night. Pastick, who was in his boat sleeping by 10pm the night before, says he didn’t hear any gunshots. 

“It’s so quiet, nobody comes here,” Pastick says, saying he hasn’t seen this type of violence in his 35 years of residing in Moss Landing. 

California State Parks Police were also present and have closed off the road, shooing away cars trying to pull in on Monday morning. An officer told an approaching driver that the road would be closed for the rest of the day.