Suspect wanted after woman found dead in Pinole home

PINOLE, Calif. - Authorities are searching for an armed suspect who fatally shot a woman at a Pinole home on Friday morning, police said.

Dispatchers received reports around 8:45 a.m. of a man breaking into a home in the 500 block of Summit Drive and attacking a woman, according to the Pinole Police Department.

When officers arrived, they found a woman dead from at least one gunshot wound. 

"It’s incredibly startling and unnerving, so everyone here is really, really shaken up," Mike Peterson, who lives two doors down, told KTVU.

Police said the victim was able to identify the suspect as 36-year-old Jeffrey Kendall, who used to live with the woman, and that the two of them share a toddler together.

"It's just sad that this happened in our neighborhood. You never think it's going to happen in your neighborhood, and then it does," neighbor Linda Guthrie said.

Kendall was captured on a neighbor's Ring camera, fleeing the area in a gray Hyundai Elantra. He remains at large and is considered armed and dangerous.

Authorities suspect Kendall carried out the homicide. He was last seen wearing a camouflage jacket, dark pants, and a baseball hat. The vehicle he fled in is a gray 2013 Hyundai Elantra with California license plate 8BLM036 with an "Oxmoor Hyundai" sticker on the right side of the trunk lid.

The little boy shared by the suspect and the victim is now staying with his extended family, according to police.