Two Shot at Motel; One Dies

Two gunmen who forced their way into a Santa Ana motel room fatally shot one man and wounded another before fleeing on foot, authorities said Monday.

No suspects or motives have emerged in the Sunday night attack, according to Santa Ana Police Sgt. Collie Provence. The gunmen, both identified as Latinos in their 20s, were last seen running from the Best Inn Motel in the 600 block of North Harbor Boulevard, Provence said.

Jose G. Andrade, 20, of Santa Ana was shot in the stomach, and an unidentified man was fatally shot in the chest, police said. Andrade was reported in fair condition at a local hospital. The identity of the dead man, a native of Mexico, was withheld pending notification of relatives.

Police provided few details of the attack, which occurred shortly before midnight Sunday in a first-floor room.

But an unidentified woman staying in a nearby room at the motel said the dead man was her boyfriend and attributed the shooting to a failed robbery. She said the mortally wounded man stumbled after his attackers and made it to the motel office, where he collapsed.

The woman added that her boyfriend had been visiting Andrade in his room at the time of the shooting. She said that she, her boyfriend and several others had shared a motel room at the Best Inn for about a week.

Andrade, she said, had been living at the motel for about a month.