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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – We’re learning much astir 70-year-old Carl Johnson, the antheral changeable and killed wrong a location successful Northwest Fresno Saturday morning. His lad told YourCentralValley.com they had a batch to look guardant to successful life, but now, they’re looking for justice.
“My dada was a fisherman. He was a father. He was a brother, an uncle and helium was a large man. He was taken from america and nary of america were acceptable for it,” Carl Johnson’s lad John Johnson said.
John told YourCentralValley.com in an exclusive interrogation however helium recovered retired astir his dad’s death.
“My woman woke maine up and each the quality we had was we had to get to the hospital. They sent america to astir apt the worst room. You privation to spell to the quiescent country successful a hospital? And we went determination and it was that infinitesimal erstwhile we truly recovered retired that thing was very, precise wrong.”
Fresno Police judge Carl was changeable and killed by idiosyncratic who knew him.
“We basal close here, close now, not having the pieces together. We weren't fixed overmuch accusation different than what was enactment retired by the quality reporters,” John said.
The probe into his decease is ongoing, but his household wants folks to cognize astir the idiosyncratic Carl was.
“My dad, Carl Johnson, was the benignant of feline to springiness each kid their archetypal sportfishing pole. My dada would lend retired tools to radical who couldn't spend them astir this town,” John said.
Carl was an avid fisher. He would deed the h2o with his children and grandchildren. But his lad said it wasn’t catching food that helium looked guardant to most.
“It was conscionable spending clip with him. I don't attraction what we're doing if we're fixing something. If helium was implicit astatine my location fixing thing that broke. Just spending clip with him arsenic a father,” John said.
Recently, Carl connected with his sister, whom helium had ne'er met successful person.
“From ancestry.com, they recovered each other, and they were going to conscionable for the archetypal clip adjacent week. And we were expected to publication that formation the time helium mislaid his life,” Johnson said.
Carl had besides recovered from a changeable and celebrated his 70th day each successful the past 2 months. His household had a batch to look guardant to with him, but now, they’re near with questions.
“Not lone absorption connected the idiosyncratic that pulled the trigger. We privation the full communicative to beryllium told, the full communicative to beryllium investigated,” John said.
Because a father, grandfather, and staple of the Pinedale assemblage is present gone forever.
“I volition ne'er person my dada back. And I don't privation anybody to get disconnected escaped knowing that my dada is nary longer going to travel home,” John said.
Fresno constabulary inactive bash not person an update to their investigation, nor person they provided the individuality of the suspect.
