Redding Police have continued investigating a murder that happened very early Saturday morning, a little after Midnight. Police were called to the intersection of Hartnell and East Cypress for a gunshot victim and they found 31-year-old Tallonn Falcon Sanders suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead after arriving at a hospital. A witness told officers that a late 90s full size truck had fled on Hartnell at a high rate of speed, and officers found a truck matching the description near Argyle Road. They tried to stop it but the driver fled, leading a chase on many different East Redding streets before the truck was forced off the roadway by police in the area of Knighton Road and Interstate Five. 21-year-old Joseph Zumwalt of Bandon, Oregon was taken into custody. The truck belonged to the victim but video evidence corroborated Zumwalt’s claim that he was an uninvolved witness who had just met Sanders. Detectives say they can’t explain yet why Zumwalt fled, but he was booked into jail for felony evading. They also say that Friday afternoon two juveniles were attacked at the Downtown Redding RABA Terminal by a group of teens or young adults from Burney, one of whom brandished a gun. That incident is believed to be related to the murder. On Sunday a 15-year-old boy was arrested for his part in the bus terminal assault. Anyone with information about the bus station assault or the East Cypress murder is urged to call detectives at 225-4214.
-Steve Gibson