19-year-old man shot and killed in Merced identified

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- The 19-year-old who was changeable and killed successful Merced connected Monday has been identified arsenic Iran Jermeal Hedrington.

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The shooting happened astir 9 p.m. successful an alleyway adjacent Martin Luther King Jr. Way and 18th Street.

Investigators accidental immoderate benignant of confrontation betwixt respective radical and Hedrington led up to the incident.

That's erstwhile shots were fired, and helium died astatine the scene.

Authorities accidental respective suspects stay connected the escaped astatine this time.

Monday night's incidental is the 3rd shooting to hap successful Merced this month, but constabulary bash not judge they are related.