The shooting happened around 1:20 a.m. in the parking lot of Golden China Restaurant in the 700 block of Seaward Avenue.
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Ventura police said two men were leaving together when some kind of altercation broke out and shots were fired.
A California Highway Patrol officer who was in the area heard the gunshots and found a 27-year-old man suffering from wounds to his upper body at the driveway to the restaurant. He died at the scene.
Soon after, a second gunshot victim, a 30-year-old man, arrived at Community Memorial Hospital with a single gunshot wound to the upper body.
Police say the second victim drove away from the shooting scene, then parked his car and rode a skateboard the rest of the way to the hospital.
He is expected to survive.
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No suspect information was immediately available, and the investigation was ongoing, according to Ventura police.