In just the first 19 days of the year, five people have been shot and three of those were killed in the city of Merced.

Two 14-year-old boys, Xavier Barragan and Nehemiah Green, were found shot to death near the Merced Behavioral Center on E. 13th Street, and police are investigating the incident as a possible

Merced pedestrians who don’t cross the road in a crosswalk, commonly called jaywalking, face potential citations under a new local law.