19-year-old suspect in Hanford homicide injured in shooting near Lemoore

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's present been 1 week since 23-year-old Cruz Avalos was changeable and killed successful his car astatine 10th Avenue and Lacey Boulevard successful Hanford.

Police person identified 19-year-old Roman Perdue arsenic the fishy successful that deadly drive-by.

Now, the Kings County Sheriff's Office confirms Perdue was besides the unfortunate of a shooting hours aboriginal astatine the Santa Rosa Rancheria.

The idiosyncratic who pulled the trigger successful that lawsuit is inactive connected the loose.

Authorities accidental Perdue was driving erstwhile helium was changeable astatine aggregate times.

He was struck connected the feature arsenic seen successful his mugshot.

A 16-year-old lad and an underage miss were some successful the car with him astatine the time.

"The pistillate and juvenile did tally successful from the country aft the shooting occurred and we were capable to drawback them and taken into custody the pistillate was aboriginal released to household and the juvenile had been taken into custody and turned implicit to Hanford PD," explained Chris Martin with the Kings County Sheriff's Office.

Detectives initially believed the 16-year-old killed Avalos but announced days aboriginal helium was nary longer a suspect.

However, helium is inactive facing weapon charges due to the fact that of a limb recovered during his arrest.

The sheriff's bureau is moving to find if the 2 shootings are connected portion acknowledging aggregate families person been impacted by the violence.

"You can't regenerate people, truthful you person a clump of folks retired close present taking lives near and close with nary existent consequences," expressed Martin.

With each the caller developments, prosecutors person requested an hold to record charges against Perdue.

Kings County District Attorney Sarah Hacker says drive-by shootings are ever hard to investigate.

"Very complicated, precise hard and we wanna marque definite that we bash it right," expressed Hacker.

Action News is inactive waiting to perceive backmost from the territory attorney's bureau to find retired erstwhile charges could beryllium filed.

The sheriff's bureau is inactive asking anyone with accusation to travel forward.

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