2 killed, 1 hurt in Marin County domestic dispute

An apartment complex is taped off, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016, in Marin City, Calif. Two people were killed and another person was injured during an altercation at an apartment complex, only blocks away from the Bayside Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy. less An apartment complex is taped off, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2016, in Marin City, Calif. Two people were killed and another person was injured during an altercation at an apartment complex, only blocks away from the ... more Photo: Santiago Mejia, Special To The Chronicle Photo: Santiago Mejia, Special To The Chronicle Image 1 of / 18 Caption Close 2 killed, 1 hurt in Marin County domestic dispute 1 / 18 Back to Gallery

Two people were killed and one injured Sunday morning in Marin City after a fight broke out in what appears to be an attempt to intervene in a domestic dispute, officials and family members said.

The altercation erupted sometime before 11 a.m. near 72 Cole Drive in a large apartment complex, said Lt. Doug Pittman, a Marin County Sheriff’s Office spokesman. Marin City is an unincorporated community northwest of Sausalito.

A woman at the scene, LaShawn Fourshey, 46, identified herself as the mother of one of the men killed, 29-year-old Jacari Cook. She said Cook and his father-in-law tried to help a woman involved in the domestic altercation, who she said was the father-in-law’s daughter.

“I didn’t know when I woke up this morning that my son would be dead,” said Fourshey, who rushed to the scene from her job managing a Burger King restaurant nearby. “It’s a big day. It’s Super Bowl Sunday. This is a day I’ll never forget. Ever.”

Emergency calls

Fourshey said her son, who lived in the complex, worked as a construction worker in San Jose, was married and had two “beautiful daughters.”

Neighbors called police after hearing the fight around 10 a.m., and then several more calls came in reporting gunshots, Pittman said.

While it’s still unclear what precipitated the fight, Pittman said police are investigating it as a “possible domestic issue.” He said all three men involved in the incident knew each other.

Pittman confirmed two victims were found mortally wounded near the entrance of an apartment.

The third man, whom officials did not identify, was found nearby and taken to a local hospital with at least one gunshot wound and possibly other injuries. Pittman described his condition Sunday afternoon as “greatly improved” and said police were interviewing him at the hospital. He said investigators are still trying to determine whether the injured man was trying to flee the scene or fleeing for his safety.

The scene was secured, and officers from multiple agencies were responding to the area, closing off streets with police tape, while interviewing witnesses and collecting evidence.

Ross Williams, who described himself as Fourshey’s cousin, said he rushed over from his nearby home when he heard the news. “I was fixing my kids a Super Bowl breakfast,” he said. “I didn’t expect this.”

‘This isn’t the first’

A neighbor said he was eating breakfast around 10 a.m. when he heard five to seven gunshots.

He walked outside a short while later and saw the street closed off with police tape and full of emergency vehicles. Several neighbors told him there had been a killing involving people who live in the area.

“It’s alarming,” said the man, who asked not to be identified because he feared for his safety. “But this isn’t the first. There was a murder less than 100 yards from my house before. It’s unfortunate.”

The same complex saw a homicide last year on May 10 when 34-year-old Jermaine Kennedy was shot and killed after attending memorial events for another man who had been slain elsewhere.

Kennedy was in an apartment at 79 Cole Drive with several other people and was shot when he stepped outside, witnesses told investigators.

Chronicle staff writer

Victoria Colliver

contributed to this report.

Evan Sernoffsky and Benny Evangelista are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: esernoffsky@sfchronicle.com, bevangelista@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @EvanSernoffsky, @ChronicleBenny