OXNARD : Woman, Man Shot Over the Weekend

Two Oxnard-area residents--one the driver of a van and another a passenger in a truck--were shot and wounded in unrelated incidents over the weekend, police said Monday.

Either an El Rio girl or her boyfriend shot the girl’s mother, Catherine Beverford, 34, of El Rio, in the head while she was driving, dropped her off at a hospital and stole her van, police said.

Beverford, a Camarillo mail carrier with four children, was in stable condition at Ventura County Medical Center, a nursing supervisor said Monday afternoon.

Beverford told police that she had stopped at 8:30 p.m. Sunday for a traffic signal at Central and Vineyard avenues, not far from her home. Her 13-year-old daughter and the girl’s 16-year-old boyfriend were in the back seat, she told police.

While she was waiting for the light to change, one of them shot her four times in the back of the head with a small-caliber handgun, she told police. The names of the suspects were not released because of their age.

The daughter and her boyfriend, a resident of Santa Barbara, then drove the 1993 Chevrolet Astro van with Beverford in it to the hospital and left, Sheriff’s Sgt. Pat Buckley said, adding that the boyfriend, Beverford’s daughter and the van are still missing.

Earlier in the day, a Ventura man riding in a pickup truck in Oxnard was shot in the mouth by another passenger, police said.

David Glispey, 24, and two other men were riding down Oxnard Boulevard near Orchard Place about 4:30 p.m. when one of the men shot Glispey in the mouth, police said. The bullet exited through his right cheek below his ear, police said.

Glispey was in stable condition at St. John’s Regional Medical Center, said Eric Hawkinson, a friend of Glispey’s.

The suspects have not been apprehended, police said. Investigations of both shootings are continuing, police said.