A man and his mother were arrested in connection with a shooting in a Stater Bros. parking lot in Costa Mesa on Tuesday morning, Aug. 18, police said.
Officers responded to the supermarket in the 2100 block of Newport Boulevard on a report of a possible shooting around 7:35 a.m., Costa Mesa Police Department spokesperson Roxi Fyad said.
They located a person suffering from a gunshot wound in the parking lot, and the victim was transported to a hospital, where they were in critical condition, Fyad said.
Police also headed to an apartment complex less than a mile away, on the 2400 block of Newport Boulevard, where a suspect was believed to be. A 37-year-old man and his 63-year-old mother were arrested there just before 3 p.m., police said.
The victim was not publicly identified, and the circumstances that led to the shooting were not immediately known, according to Fyad.
Additional information will be added when it becomes available.