Clovis McDonald's shooting may have been motivated by sexual assaults, attorney says

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Action News has learned caller details successful the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Caleb Quick extracurricular a Clovis McDonald's, with the lawyer for the teenage fishy suggesting the sidesplitting whitethorn person been motivated by allegations of intersexual misconduct involving Quick.

Attorney Mark Coleman, who represents the 16-year-old lad charged successful the April shooting, said successful an exclusive sit-down interrogation that the incidental whitethorn person been provoked by what helium described arsenic "egregious harm" allegedly committed by Quick.

"It wasn't for money. It wasn't for idiosyncratic benefit," Coleman said. "It was avenging an egregious harm that occurred to idiosyncratic else."

According to Coleman, constabulary documents and witnesser statements bespeak that Quick whitethorn person been progressive successful aggregate incidents of intersexual misconduct. One cardinal portion of evidence, helium said, is simply a video recovered connected Quick's telephone dated April 14, which allegedly shows a intersexual brushwood with a miss who aboriginal told investigators she had blacked retired and did not retrieve consenting.

Coleman said the miss lone became alert of the incidental aft Quick sent her the video.

"The motive for this crime, according to police, is that idiosyncratic knew of the rape and the videotape, and they believed that Caleb had done this connected a fig of occasions and that helium needed to beryllium stopped," Coleman said.

He added that investigators are alert of astatine slightest 2 different akin incidents involving Quick.

Police interviewed respective of Quick's friends, 1 of whom said helium often slapped her and erstwhile pressured her into sex.

Another person told constabulary Caleb's behaviour was good known and that determination were respective incidents.

"It puts it into a wholly antithetic context," Coleman said. "I deliberation everybody needs to enactment themselves successful that presumption successful presumption of what you would do."

Investigators judge the teen shooter and his woman were astatine the McDonald's anterior to the attack, near truthful helium could alteration into all-black, and past returned.

Investigators judge surveillance video shows the fishy tracking Quick for 13 minutes earlier pursuing him into the parking lot.

Authorities judge the suspect's woman was besides wrong the edifice earlier the onslaught and aboriginal near successful a achromatic Tesla.

The teenage fishy denied the execution complaint during a tribunal quality Wednesday. A justice ordered him to stay successful juvenile hall.

"My statement is that if, assuming helium did this, which again we don't concede that determination was large provocation, that it's not apt to recur," Coleman said.

Quick's household has not responded to the caller claims. Prosecutors person not yet presented their grounds successful court, and nary of the allegations person been proven.

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