20-year-old accused of homicide, Visalia sexual battery cases arrested, police say

VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 20-year-old antheral who is accused of being linked to respective intersexual artillery cases successful Visalia, which resulted successful 1 woman's death, was arrested successful Alaska, the Visalia Police Department said Wednesday.

Detectives said they identified 20-year-old Adrian Hernandez Medrano arsenic the fishy liable for a bid of sexuals batteries and the homicide of 1 pistillate betwixt 2023 and 2025.

The suspect, 20-year-old Adrian Hernandez Medrano

In the summertime of 2023, the section began investigating two abstracted intersexual artillery cases. Police said that the cases shared a akin fishy statement and signifier of behavior.

In 2023, the reports said that a antheral had groped 2 women. One, portion she was walking her dog, and helium had asked if helium could favored it, erstwhile helium did, constabulary said helium forcefully groped the unfortunate and ran away. The different happened erstwhile a pistillate was walking unsocial and idiosyncratic came from down and groped her.

On the evening of June 21, adjacent the Oval Park country successful Visalia, three intersexual artillery incidents occurred. Police said 1 of the victims was physically assaulted during the onslaught and aboriginal died from her injuries. Police said the suspect's statement and method matched those of the 2023 cases.

After an extended investigation, detectives identified Medrano arsenic the suspect. Search warrants were executed successful Visalia successful an effort to find him and stitchery evidence.

During the operation, constabulary said that Medrano fled the authorities and was believed to beryllium successful Alaska.

Police said they traveled to the Kenai country of Alaska, wherever they successfully located and arrested Medrano with the assistance of the Alaska State Troopers.

He was booked successful a region jailhouse successful Alaska and is presently awaiting extradition backmost to Tulare County. He faces aggregate charges of intersexual artillery and 1 number of homicide.