DNA evidence leads to arrest in Fresno shooting death

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 35-year-old antheral who was already successful custody successful the Fresno County Jail was charged with the 2022 decease of a antheral successful Fresno, based connected DNA evidence, according to the Fresno Police Department.

Police accidental connected Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022, astatine 6:27 p.m., officers responded to a disturbance wrong an flat adjacent Winery and McKinley avenues.

When officers arrived, they recovered the rear sliding solid doorway to 1 of the apartments shattered. 

47-year-old Ursolo “Frank” Sermeno

Officers accidental they recovered 47-year-old Ursolo “Frank” Sermeno unresponsive, suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds to the precocious body, wrong the flat wherever helium aboriginal died.

Detectives accidental they identified 35-year-old Michael Cameron Fitch arsenic 1 of the suspects progressive successful the shooting. 

35-year-old Michael Cameron Fitch

Detectives, with the assistance of the State of California Department of Justice, were capable to place Fitch done DNA grounds recovered from the scene. 

Fitch was already successful custody astatine the Fresno County Jail for a 2021 execution and was additionally charged connected Wednesday, June 4, 2025, with the decease of Sermeno, according to police.