ALAMEDA — Two people were wounded in a shooting at a gas station late Saturday night, according to the Alameda Police Department and the station’s manager.

Sgt. Brian Foster said Sunday afternoon that a suspect had been arrested shortly after the incident at the station at 1260 Park St. at the corner of Encinal Avenue around 11 p.m. Saturday. Foster said the suspect was in Alameda County jail and that his name would be released Monday. A Hayward police K-9 unit was used in an attempt to recover related evidence and police have surveillance footage from the gas station, Foster said.

Details about the Arco station shooting had not been immediately available from Alameda police. The agency did not issue a statement or return multiple calls seeking information throughout the morning and afternoon. Social media reports indicated one of the victims may have died, but police did not confirm that immediately, and the reports apparently proved to be inaccurate.

The station’s manager, Joel Gutierrez, said the two victims, store employee Biniam Goitom and independent maintenance contractor Leo Vega, are both recovering after having been taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland after the shooting.

Initial social media reports indicated Vega had been shot fatally in the chest, but this proved false, said Gutierrez, who indicated his understanding to be that neither Vega nor Goitom were in critical condition. Gutierrez said that though Vega was shot in his chest, the bullet went in and out his body, missing any vital organs. Goitom was reportedly shot in the leg. Gutierrez also said sometime between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Sunday that the station’s store had reopened after a closure because of the police investigation.

Gutierrez said the incident happened shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday, when Goitom and Vega came in contact with an individual known to Vega to have painted graffiti previously on the station’s grounds. The shooting then happened shortly after Goitom and Vega told the individual to leave the station, Gutierrez said.

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