It's a violent beginning to the new year

It's a violent beginning to the new year, but Mayor Dennis Donohue said he remains hopeful that Salinas can be a city without violence.Two shootings took place in east Salinas, which is where 74 percent of the city's violent crime occurs, the mayor said.
Donohue said he is frustrated by the violence in the city, but is not giving up on his vision of a peaceful Salinas. Police are still looking for the people involved in the first two shootings of 2008. Three people have been wounded in two shootings that have happened in the first two days of the new year in Salinas.
One person was shot in a driveway in the latest shooting, which happened Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. on Mae Avenue.
The year's first shooting took place on Tuesday. Two people were shot on Williams Avenue.