19-year-old arrested after 2023 shooting death in Fresno, police say

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 19-year-old was arrested connected Wednesday for a shooting successful Fresno successful 2023 that near a 25-year-old antheral dead, the Fresno Police Department said.

Officers accidental 19-year-old Angel Gonzalez was arrested connected Tuesday connected homicide charges relating to the shooting decease successful 2023.

Photo of 25-year-old Simon Martinez provided by the Fresno Police Department.

According to police, connected July 16, 2023, 25-year-old Simon Martinez and his woman were leaving a enactment successful the country of Thorne Avenue and Lorena Avenue successful Fresno erstwhile they were confronted by a antheral with a handgun. The antheral demanded spot from the couple.

During the confrontation, a conveyance approached and idiosyncratic from wrong the car changeable Martinez and his wife. Martinez was rushed to the infirmary but died a abbreviated clip later, constabulary say. The woman survived her injuries.

Following the incident, homicide detectives accidental they person identified respective radical associated with the fishy vehicle, including the idiosyncratic who attempted to rob them.

22-year-old Jesse Castillo

22-year-old Zachariah Rodriguez

The probe led to the 2023 arrests of 22-year-old Jesse Castillo, connected suspicion of robbery and homicide charges, and 22-year-old Zachariah Rodriguez, connected suspicion of being an accessory to homicide.

Homicide detectives accidental they yet identified 19-year-old Angel Gonzalez arsenic the fishy who changeable Martinez and his wife. Police accidental connected Tuesday detectives served a hunt warrant astatine an flat analyzable adjacent Shaw Avenue and Valentine Avenue wherever Gonzalez was located inside.

Angel Gonzalez, 19 (image courtesy of the Fresno Police Department)

Gonzalez was arrested, charged with suspicion of the 2023 homicide, and booked into the Fresno County Jail.