Shooting shakes Bodega Bay neighborhood

BODEGA BAY, Calif. (KGO) -- Police are investigating what some say is the most violent crime Bodega Bay has seen in years. It happened where Taylor Street meets Highway 1, just a block from Diekmann's Bay Store.

The employees at Diekmann's were just making breakfast when it happened. "A lady came in, she was pretty frantic, saying that a guy had a gun and he was after her," employee Adrian Padilla recalled.

Moments later, a second woman ran into the Bodega Harbor Inn. "Screaming and crying hysterically, and said that there's a man down the street, he's got a shotgun, I heard three shots fired and I think she's dead," inn manager Lisa Scott said.

"She" was a third woman, who was in fact still alive.

She was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, where the Press Democrat reports she was conscious upon arrival.

Meanwhile, the SWAT team surrounded the house where the three had been sleeping before the gunman woke them up.

They knew who he was.

"She had filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend two days ago. So he somehow found her," Scott said.

Neighbors say the house is a vacation rental, so the victims are not from here. And it turns out neither was the suspected shooter.

Neighbors believe he drove here in the middle of the night and parked right up the street.

"The suspect parked his car here," inn manager George Scott said.

George Scott says police found the blue rental car by calling the suspect's cell phone.

What they couldn't find was the suspect, so they told the neighbors to shelter in place.

"I'm scared. I'm really scared. I have kids and stuff, you know? I can't believe something like this would happen in our town," Bodega Bay resident Kathrine Burke said.

"You know we had the manhunt in the neighborhood here for a good couple hours. I don't think they realized he was in the house," George Scott said.

But neighbors say police sent a robot into the house.

The sheriff's office confirms they found the man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. It was a gruesome discovery that left neighbors relieved.

"Because if he goes to jail and gets out, he'll just do it again to somebody else," Lisa Scott said.

"We're just glad that it's over," George Scott said.

Police have not yet released the names of the suspect or the victims.