Constance Hages named in Fairfield store shooting; four survivors still hospitalized

Police have identified the woman killed as Constance Hages, 31, and released a more detailed account of the six wounded survivors: four remained hospitalized in Saturday afternoon reporting, including a critically injured 16-year-old boy, while two had been treated and released. Investigators now believe one suspect carried out a targeted shooting, but they have not publicly named that person or explained the motive.⁠3⁠5

The update gives names, ages and hospital outcomes to a toll that has not changed. In our October 31 report, broadcast at 2:55 a.m. Pacific time, we reported one person killed and six wounded, with at least three survivors critically injured. The new information does not increase that count.

Officers responded to reports of gunfire at about 8:30 p.m. Pacific time on Friday, October 30, at the Spirit Halloween store inside Solano Town Center in Fairfield, California. The seasonal costume and decoration store is at the shopping center on Travis Boulevard. That response time is not an established time for the first shot. All seven victims suffered gunshot wounds.⁠6⁠3⁠4

Hages’s identification was public around midday Saturday. KCRA’s October 31 report was published at 12:56 p.m. Pacific time; KTVU’s report, published just before 1 p.m., said police had shared the identification shortly before that hour. Those publication times do not establish the exact minute of the police announcement. They do supersede The Press Democrat’s 11:12 a.m. account that her name was still being withheld pending confirmation and family notification.⁠5⁠3⁠1

Hages’s family told detectives she was pregnant. Police said they were seeking confirmation through an examination by the Solano County Coroner. That remains a family report, not an independently confirmed medical finding, and it does not establish an additional confirmed fatality.⁠4

The clearest part of the hospital update is who remained there. A 16-year-old boy, a 19-year-old man and a 32-year-old man were specifically identified as critically injured. A 23-year-old man also remained hospitalized. All six wounded survivors are male, ranging in age from 16 to 43.⁠3⁠4

The descriptions of the 23-year-old’s condition do not agree. In their October 31 afternoon accounts, KTVU called his condition “stable,” while CBS Bay Area described it as “critical but stable.” KCRA described all four hospitalized survivors as “critical but stable.” The reports do not explain whether that difference reflects a medical change, a summary of the police update or an error.⁠3⁠4⁠5

That distinction matters. The common ground is four people still in hospital, with the patients aged 16, 19 and 32 explicitly identified as critical. The evidence does not support announcing an unqualified increase to four critical patients. Nor does the word “stable” establish that the 23-year-old is out of danger.

The two discharged survivors are another 19-year-old man and a 43-year-old man, both treated for gunshot wounds. There are two different 19-year-olds among the wounded: one remained critically injured in hospital, while the other had been released. Discharge answers where those two patients were in their treatment; it does not establish full recovery.⁠3⁠4

The precise chronology of Hages’s death and any transport remains incompletely reconciled. USA Today’s October 31 afternoon report, citing Police Chief Dan Marshall, places the death at the scene. NBC News’s earlier overnight account said all victims had been taken to a hospital. The later account places her death more specifically, but does not explain the earlier transport wording. The six survivors were taken to hospitals; neither account changes the established toll.⁠2⁠13⁠6

The investigative account has advanced beyond the overnight uncertainty about how many shooters were involved. Police now say preliminary information points to a “targeted incident involving one suspect inside the Spirit Halloween store.” That is a working assessment, not a completed reconstruction.⁠3⁠4

“Targeted” does not tell the public who the intended target was. Police have not explained why Hages or any particular survivor was shot, disclosed a motive or established relationships among the victims. No suspect was publicly identified in the afternoon reporting, and KCRA’s account published at 12:56 p.m. Pacific time said no one had been detained. That custody update is tied to that report’s time, not every later moment.⁠3⁠5

Detectives were interviewing witnesses and reviewing video footage and other evidence to identify the person responsible. That confirms an ongoing video review, beyond the uncertainty in our overnight report about its progress. But no disclosed finding from the footage identifies the shooter or establishes the sequence or number of shots. The FBI’s Sacramento Evidence Response Team was assisting; its involvement does not itself establish a federal charge or motive.⁠3⁠5⁠9

Solano Town Center canceled its planned Mall-O-Ween event, according to KCRA. A verified reopening time was not established. The update resolves important questions about the victims, but leaves the central investigative ones unanswered: who fired, why, and what happened inside the store. For now, four survivors remain hospitalized, including a critically injured child, and the woman killed has a name: Constance Hages.⁠5⁠3