There are heightened police patrols in Ceres after two weekend shootings within minutes of each other, that left one man dead and another injured. Ceres Police received a report of an unresponsive man near a canal bank adjacent to the former Walmart property on Mitchell Road,

Ceres police said they are investigating after one man was killed and another wounded in nearby shootings early Sunday. Police said Wednesday they first found a 39-year-old unhoused man with a gunshot wound near the canal bank adjacent to a former Walmart on Mitchell Road after 12:30 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Two separate shootings in Ceres resulted in the death of a man on Tuesday, according to the Ceres Police Department. Just after midnight, officers received reports of a man who was unresponsive near a canal by the 1600 block of Mitchell Road.

A 26-year-man was reported missing days before he was found shot to death inside a parked vehicle behind an office building in Columbia early Saturday, according to Howard County Police.