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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two Clovis teenagers are successful custody, charged connected suspicion of 18-year-old Caleb Quick’s murder.
“I’m highly assured to accidental our assemblage is safe,” Clovis Police Chief Curt Fleming announced astatine Saturday’s property conference.
A masked fishy changeable and killed Quick extracurricular a Clovis McDonald’s on April 23.
Police accidental photos from adjacent surveillance cameras amusement 2 radical involved.
“As acold arsenic the unfortunate and the suspect, they did cognize each other. To what extent, I don't know. But they didn't cognize each other,” Fleming said.
Fleming says a 16-year-old lad was the 1 who allegedly pulled the trigger, pictured wearing a disguise wrong the McDonald’s.
They accidental his 16-year-old woman allegedly drove the getaway car: a achromatic Tesla.
Over the 2 and a fractional weeks since the shooting, constabulary accidental some suspects’ parents hired attorneys.
Then connected Friday night, constabulary worked with those attorneys and the suspects turned themselves in.
“The weapon was recovered astatine the fishy shooter's location during a hunt warrant,” Fleming said.
Quick’s dad, Stephen Quick, shared his absorption to the arrests with YourCentralValley.com Saturday.
“Just a large suspiration of alleviation that we've got these two. And truthful the adjacent process is, you know, trying to beryllium without a tenable uncertainty that these 2 are so liable for my son's death,” Quick said.
He says the nonaccomplishment of his lad near a dense burden, lightened by the community’s support.
Caleb Quick’s schoolhouse friends organized a car lavation fundraiser for the household Saturday.
“The magnitude of enactment Clovis has done for my son, it's conscionable been precise humbling,” Quick said.
Both suspects were charged connected suspicion of murder.
Reporters asked constabulary wherefore the getaway operator faces the aforesaid complaint arsenic the shooter, but they could not answer.
They accidental galore details, similar the suspects’ identities and motives, indispensable stay hidden due to the fact that they are minors.
Quick says his household was not adjacent told who the suspects are.
However, helium says the cognition of their arrests is capable to fto his household instrumentality steps toward healing.
“We're not moving connected without him. We're moving connected with him and we're trying to heal with him and that volition everlastingly beryllium successful our heart,” Quick said.
Police accidental they inactive person astir 2 months of investigating ahead. They accidental whether the suspects volition beryllium charged arsenic minors oregon adults is up to the territory attorney.
