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TheAssociatedPress SACRAMENTO Police searched for a gunman Thursday night who killed one person and wounded two others in a parking lot on a Sacramento college campus, authorities said. One victim was de- clared dead at the scene, another was taken to a hospital with injuries, and the third was only grazed by a bullet and was being questioned by investiga- tors, said Dustin Poore of Los Rios police, who pa- trol Sacramento City Col- lege. One of the victims is a student at the college, but it was not immediately clear which. It was also unclear whether the oth- ers had any connection to the school. The shooting near a baseball field at the edge of campus began as a verbal dispute between the group of men, one of whom pulled out a gun and fired, Poore said. The suspect, wearing a white T-shirt and cargo shorts, fled on foot. The campus was locked down for about two hours before police officers had cleared all the buildings and allowed students and staff to leave. They had not found the suspect, and expected he had left the campus, though investigators were still combing the area, po- lice said. Evening classes were canceled. Freshman Kimberly Jenkins said she was com- ing out of class shortly be- fore 4 p.m. when police descended on the school, telling the Sacramento Bee that "We saw the cop cars just zoom through" campus from all direc- tions. Jackie Flores, 50, who lives across the street from the parking lot, said she heard four or five shots. "It all happened so fast," she told the Bee. Classes were in session at the two-year college in central Sacramento with a student body of about 25,000. The fall semester began Aug. 22. The corner of campus where the shooting oc- curred is surrounded by strip malls with chain restaurants on one side and a golf course on the other. The Sacramento Police Department will handle the homicide investiga- tion, authorities said. SHOOTING Gunmankills1,wounds2atSacramentocollege MICHAELMACOR—SANFRANCISCOCHRONICLE,FILE Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, right, is lead into the courtroom by San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, le , and Assistant District Attorney Diana Garciaor, center, for his arraignment at the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO A judge declined Thursday to toss out the confession of a sus- pect charged with murder in a San Francisco shoot- ing at the center of the na- tional immigration debate. Defense attorneys ar- gued during a prelimi- nary hearing that police didn't have good reason to arrest Juan Francisco Lo- pez-Sanchez an hour after the shooting of a young woman on a pier in San Francisco. The attorneys argued that no one saw Lopez-San- chez, who is in the coun- try illegally, fire the gun on July 1 and that police ar- rested him because he was a homeless person acting suspiciously. Several witnesses took photos of Lopez-Sanchez walking briskly away from 32-year-old victim Kate Steinle. Police used the photos to arrest Lopez- Sanchez, who then told in- vestigators he accidentally shot Steinle. Judge Brendan Conroy ruled Thursday that po- lice acted appropriately in arresting and interrogat- ing the suspect. The judge said he will rule Friday on whether the suspect must stand trial for murder. The shooting triggered a national debate over im- migration after it was re- vealed that the San Fran- cisco Sheriff's Department had released Lopez-San- chez despite a federal re- quest to detain him for possible deportation. Lopez-Sanchez, 45, was previously deported five times to his native Mexico. Republican presiden- tial front-runner Don- ald Trump has repeatedly mentioned the killing of Steinle as he calls for a bor- der wall and mass deporta- tions to curb illegal immi- gration. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, both Democrats, said Lo- pez-Sanchez should have been detained. Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi said his department was following city law when jailers released Lopez- Sanchez after a 20-year- old marijuana possession charge was dropped. The sheriff said his de- partment requires federal officials to obtain a war- rant or some other judi- cial notice in order for his jail to hold an inmate fac- ing possible deportation. San Francisco and some 300 other cities and coun- ties have passed so-called sanctuary laws of non-co- operation with federal im- migration officials seek- ing to detain jail inmates suspected of being in the country illegally. Prosecutors want to con- vict Lopez-Sanchez of sec- ond-degree murder, which carries a maximum sen- tence of life in prison. His public defender Matt Gonzalez argues that the shooting was an acci- dent and his client should be tried for manslaughter rather than murder. The maximum sentence for an involuntary manslaughter conviction is six years. Lopez-Sanchez says he found the gun used in the shooting of Steinle under a bench on Pier 14. He said the gun accidentally fired when he picked it up. Ballistic experts tes- tified last week that the bullet ricocheted off the pavement before striking Steinle in the back. The gun had been re- ported stolen from the car of a Bureau of Land Man- agement ranger in June. Steinle's family has filed three separate legal claims seeking unspecified dam- ages from the BLM, San Francisco Sheriff's Depart- ment and the U.S. Depart- ment of Homeland Security. The three agencies de- clined to comment on the claims, which are precur- sors to lawsuits. Ju dg e: M ur de r su sp ec t' s confession OK in pier shooting SAN FRANCISCO By Juliet Williams The Associated Press SACRAMENTO Gov. Jerry Brown's administration is proposing to spend $3.6 billion a year for repairs to California's crumbling transportation infrastruc- ture, with some of the money to come from a $65 annual fee on vehicle reg- istrations and increases in diesel and gas taxes tied to inflation. The administration con- firmed Thursday that it was circulating the plan to legislative leaders and transportation interest groups, which had called for spending $6 billion a year. The proposal says the $65 annual charge would generate $2 billion a year, while $500 million would come from fees charged to polluters and $100 million from so-called "efficien- cies" at Caltrans, which the independent state leg- islative analyst has said is overstaffed. Brown spokesman Ga- reth Lacey said in an email that the proposal was of- fered after numerous meet- ings with Democrats and Republicans. "It includes sensible re- forms and sufficient reve- nue to improve our roads, bridges, public transit and trade corridors — all vital to boosting quality-of-life and economic competitive- ness," Lacey said. The Democratic gover- nor called a special session on transportation funding in June but until Thurs- day there was little indica- tion of a concrete proposal backed by the administra- tion for how to pay for an estimated $59 billion back- log in repairs. Brown's plan includes concessions sought by Re- publicans such as requiring regular updates on prog- ress toward highway im- provements, streamlined environmental reviews for infrastructure repairs and extending public-pri- vate partnerships for con- struction. Still, he did not appear to yet have support needed from a two-thirds majority in each house of the state Legislature. Assembly Minority Leader Kristin Olsen, R- Riverbank, said in a state- ment that she is happy the proposal embraces strat- egies for quickly building better roads. "Unfortunately, the ad- ministration's ideas call for more than doubling the ve- hicle registration fees and raising the price of fuel on all Californians — we dis- agree and think Califor- nians have paid enough," she said. Lawmakers in both parties believe the state's transportation tax struc- ture is out of date. They also agree the state can't keep relying on a gas tax that hasn't been increased in 20 years and lets thou- sands of electric car drivers off the hook for maintain- ing the roads they drive on. The current gas tax rises and falls each year based on state projections. Brown's proposal would set it at a fixed rate based on a 5-year average then add index increases to the con- sumer price index. It also calls for an 11-cent-per-gal- lon increase on diesel fuel. Transportation, busi- ness and transit advocacy groups responded enthu- siastically to the proposal, urging lawmakers to reach a compromise before the Legislature is set to leave Sacramento on Sept. 11. Brown's outline also in- cludes: • $1.6 billion annually for state highway improve- ments; • $1.15 billion annually for local streets and roads, including $100 million for environmentally friendly improvements such as bike lanes and sidewalks; and • $400 million a year in grants to local govern- ments for transit. TRANSPORTATION Br ow n off er s $3 .6 B hi gh wa y pl an The Single Best Advertising Tool....! TheGoldExchangehasbeenapartofthe TVWeek advertising package for over 4 years. This has proven to be the single best advertising tool for print that I have found in my 21 years of retail advertising. I get a free ad in the Daily News every week in addition to my ad in the TV magazine. 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