62-year-old man shot in leg Sunday morning outside Fort Bragg

MENDOCINO Co., 1/15/24 — A 62-year-old man was shot in the leg around 7:25 a.m. Sunday morning in the 29000 block of Highway 20, roughly four miles east of Fort Bragg city limits. The victim was transported to a hospital and is expected to survive. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office has identified the suspected shooter as 33-year-old Michael Anthony Jones, who remains at large. 

Jones is described as a white man with brown hair and hazel eyes, standing 5 feet 11 inches tall and roughly 175 pounds — with a prominent tattoo on the right side of his neck. Anyone with information about his whereabouts is asked to contact the sheriff’s office at 707-463-4086.