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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral successful his 30s has been sentenced to 75 years to beingness successful situation for the execution of a 24-year-old antheral successful Fresno implicit a shot squad flag, according to the Fresno County District Attorney's Office.
The DA's bureau announced that 39-year-old Daniel Epimenio Gonzalez of Fresno was sentenced to 75 years to beingness successful situation for the execution of 24-year-old Frank Rojas of Fresno connected Thursday, pursuing a weeks-long proceedings that concluded connected Oct. 14, 2024.
According to officials, officers with the Fresno Police Department responded to a location connected Feb. 1, 2020, regarding a shooting victim. When they arrived, they recovered Rojas suffering from a gunshot coiled to his abdomen.
The DA's bureau says witnesses told officers that portion they were successful the beforehand gait of the home, opening to hole for the Super Bowl the pursuing day, Gonzalez rode by connected a motorcycle and began to cuss astatine Rojas and the witnesses implicit a San Francisco 49er's emblem that was displayed successful the beforehand of the house.
A verbal statement past ensued, which officials accidental was carried implicit to a vacant batch connected the northbound broadside of the home, wherever witnesses watched arsenic Gonzalez took a homemade weapon retired of his backpack and changeable Rojas. Gonzalez past fled the scene, but helium was located a abbreviated clip aboriginal astatine a adjacent stateless encampment.
During a hunt of the encampment, officers accidental they recovered the weapon utilized successful the homicide.
The DA's bureau says Gonzalez has a lengthy transgression past dating backmost to 2002, which includes a anterior onslaught discourtesy from 2013.
