Three separate shooting incidents in Santa Maria Friday night left one person dead and four others hospitalized, according to the Santa Maria Police Department.

The most serious attack occurred shortly before 8 p.m. in the 1500 block of South Thornburg Street near West Enos Drive, police said.

One man was declared dead at the scene, and a second was critically wounded and flown by CalStar medical helicopter to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Sgt. Steve Lopez said.

A third victim was in stable condition at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria.

About two hours earlier, shortly before 6 p.m., a man was shot in the 1200 block of West Bethel Lane.

That victim, who suffered gunshot wounds to his upper torso, also was reported to be in stable condition at Marian.

A third shootingfrom the old Jim Crow playbook to keep black people from voting. Kemp, who is running for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams, is overseeing his own election. His office is currently being sued over the suspension of registrations of 53,000 Georgia voters, nearly 70 percent of them African American, over often trivial discrepancies in how their names appear. Between 2012 and 2016, Georgia purged 1.5 million voters.

Similarly, Indiana has erased nearly half a million registered voters from its rolls, and North Dakota has stripped the voting rights of thousands of Native Americans. Nationwide, almost 16 million voters were purged between 2014 and 2016, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, four million more than between 2006 and 2008.

GOP is also openly embracing hostility to women, as we saw