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

Shots were fired near a vigil Wednesday night for the two 14-year-old boys killed in a shooting earlier this week, according to Merced police. The vigil was being held near the makeshift memorials outside the Merced Urology Medical Group building on East 13th Street.

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

The Merced Police Department has denied the presence of ICE agents at local schools, reassuring families that students are safe and protected while at school.