EAST PALO ALTO – Police are investigating a Sunday night shooting in East Palo Alto that killed one person and sent four people to the hospital.

Emergency crews responded around 11:40 p.m. to a shooting at Purdue Avenue and Georgetown Street, across from Costano Elementary School.

Responding emergency crews pronounced one person deceased at the scene and transported four people suffering from wounds to the hospital, according to the Menlo Park Fire Protection District.

The slain man was later identified as Nazario Barajas, 18, of East Palo Alto.

Fire officials said the East Palo Alto Police Department is continuing to investigate the shooting.

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