Two men were shot and killed and a woman was injured while sitting in a car near a Colina del Sol grocery store early Sunday morning, San Diego police said.

Two men and two women in a black Nissan were driving around a strip mall parking lot on El Cajon Boulevard near 52nd Street around 12:15 a.m. when they pulled up next to a group of males standing near a light pole, San Diego police Lt. Paul Rorrison said.

The two groups got into a quarrel and at least one male in the parking lot shot at the car, Rorrison said. The two men inside and a woman in the front seat were hit. The other woman in the car wasn’t injured.

The assailants were last seen running east on El Cajon Boulevard, the lieutenant said.


Police arrived and pulled the two men from the car. The officers performed CPR, but the victims died of their injuries. The 32-year-old woman who was shot was taken to a hospital. She underwent surgery and is expected to survive, Rorrison said.

Investigators later found the woman who ran from the car and she was interviewed, the lieutenant said. The men who shot the car haven’t been located, and are considered armed and dangerous.

The strip mall, which contains about half a dozen businesses including a World Foods Supermarket, was fairly busy at the time of the shooting, and detectives interviewed several witnesses, Rorrison said. Police believe some who saw the shooting may have ran when shots were fired. Witnesses are being asked to call the San Diego Police Department.