A Sacramento librarian was fatally shot in a parking lot, and police have arrested a man who had been banned from the library.
Amber Clark, 41, was shot multiple times in the head as she sat in her car outside the North Natomas Public Library shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday.
Arrested the following day was Ronald Seay, 56, of North Natomas.
Detectives believe Clark was targeted and are investigating the motive for the shooting, said police department spokesman Sgt. Vance Chandler.
Chandler said Seay has lived a few miles from the North Natomas library for several months. He was issued a no-trespass order after causing a disturbance there on Oct. 13. Clark was a supervisor at the library at the time.
Police did not immediately say if Seay and Clark had interacted during the incident that led to his ban from the facility.
Seay was arrested Wednesday after a short, slow-speed chase at 5:30 a.m., Chandler said.
He said multiple weapons were recovered during the investigation of Seay, but he could not comment on whether the handgun used in Clark’s killing had been recovered.
Initial reports said the suspect was wearing a mask and fled the scene in a gray sedan with out-of-state license plates.
The North Natomas library is a joint facility, serving Inderkum High School and a satellite campus of American River College as well as the general community. Classes were in session at the college when the shots were fired.
Clark worked as an educator in Oklahoma before joining the Sacramento Public Library in 2015, where she worked in Florin, North Highlands and Natomas branches.
Clark’s husband, Kelly Clark, said his wife “pursued professions that served to benefit young people and the betterment of society,” in a statement emailed to The Bee.
“She selflessly gave of herself to her community,” he said.
Seay was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail Thursday on suspicion of felony homicide and shooting into an occupied vehicle.
