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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Madera Police accidental 30-year-old Narciso Fernandez traveled astir an hr and a fractional north, walked into a Walgreens and changeable an worker dead. Fernandez past fired his handgun astatine different unit and customers earlier officers arrived and detained him without incident.
“I've not seen thing to this magnitude successful our town,” Walgreens shopper and Madera autochthonal Alexis Miller-Jones said.
“He not lone constituent blank murdered the store worker Erick Velasquez, but the store manager and a pistillate unfortunate aft the shooting fled retired the beforehand doorway and helium turned and started shooting towards them,” Madera Chief of Police Gina Chiaramonte said.
Miller-Jones comes to the Walgreens disconnected Cleveland Avenue weekly. She said she is shaken aft learning astir a shooting astatine her accustomed buying spot.
“One clip idiosyncratic busted successful the doors and stole a clump of cigarettes, but that was the biggest, this is simply a batch much scary,” Miller-Jones said.
Madera Police shared video of Fernandez pointing a weapon astatine a surveillance camera. The video cuts to achromatic arsenic helium shoots astatine the camera.
“When they arrived, they located the fishy lasting astatine his vehicle, reloading his handgun,” Chief Chiaramonte said.
Police besides shared video of Fernandez's surrender.
“His connection was helium knew it was implicit by the magnitude of instrumentality enforcement beingness with lights and sirens coming. He said successful his caput helium gave up,” Chief Chiaramonte said.
Police took Fernandez into custody without incident, but constabulary are wondering wherefore the fishy drove astir 90 miles to sprout idiosyncratic helium didn’t know.
“He's from Pixley, has nary crushed to beryllium here, has nary narration to immoderate of the employees oregon transportation to the Walgreens successful Madera. He has nary transgression history,” Chief Chiaramonte said.
However, investigators person revealed Fernandez whitethorn person ill-will against pharmacies.
“He has generalized choler towards pharmacies done erstwhile issues,” Chief Chiaramonte said.
And now, 2 families are torn and near with questions.
“I usually travel with my young child. He's 11 years old, you know, and it does alteration your position connected 'I'm conscionable doing your mean mundane shopping,'” Miller-Jones said.
And, radical conscionable going astir their regular lives are dealing with the daze of the incident.
“We person a unfortunate and a woman that has 2 children that are present reeling, trying to enactment the pieces unneurotic themselves and reply the question of why,” Chief Chiaramonte said.
Police said determination were radical and children wrong the Walgreens astatine the clip of the shooting, and they are looking for anyone who knows Fernandez to recognize wherefore helium did this.
