This car is a lead in an unsolved Merced County deadly shooting in 2021

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - New details person emerged regarding the deadly shooting of a antheral successful 2021 connected Highway 99 extracurricular Merced, the California Highway Patrol announced.

According to the CHP, connected June 15, 2021, around 2:30 p.m., they responded to a reported shooting connected southbound Highway 99 adjacent Franklin Road, wherever they recovered the operator of a bluish Dodge Dart, 25-year-old Timothy Lamore Sheeler Jr. of Winton, had been changeable dead.

During their archetypal investigation, officers study witnesses described the fishy conveyance arsenic a airy colored, four-door sedan with astatine slightest 2 radical inside, past seen southbound connected Highway 99 astatine a precocious complaint of speed.

CHP precocious sought the public's assistance, and done caller accusation provided by the community, investigators present judge the fishy conveyance is simply a late-model metallic Volkswagen Passat. Video surveillance successful Atwater showed that conveyance was traveling successful the country earlier the shooting.

Anyone with immoderate accusation regarding this lawsuit is asked to interaction Detective O. Martinez astatine 209-321-0089 and notation 21-460-0665.