LOCAL : Man Wounded in Santa Ana

SANTA ANA —  A 22-year-old man was wounded in the neck by gunfire last night in what police described as a gang-related, drive-by attack, police said today.

Jose Valenzuele was shot once by an unidentified assailant in a pickup truck that was passing by his home in the 1600 block of West Stanford about 10 p.m., police said.

Witnesses called police and Fire Department paramedics, who treated Valenzuele at the scene and then took him to UCI Medical Center. He was listed in stable condition, officials said.

The assailants had fled the scene by the time authorities arrived. Police declined to say if there were suspects in the case.

The shooting attack was the third in two days. At 11 p.m. on Halloween night, three people were wounded by gunfire as they stood in front of a home on Gunther Street. One of them was hospitalized with bullet wounds in his chest and back.

And 45 minutes later, a man was critically wounded as he was walking toward home with a friend. That victim, Sergio Zamora, 18, died 16 hours later at UCI Medical Center.