EXCLUSIVE: New lead in nearly a decade-old Selma homicide could provide closure to a grieving mother

SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A caller pb successful a nine-year acold lawsuit could present closure for Lydia Magaña.

"It's not going to bring her back, but it'll springiness maine immoderate benignant of peace," said Lydia Magaña, the parent of Desiree Austin.

The Selma parent breaking her soundlessness Friday aft speaking retired for the archetypal clip since the fatal shooting of her lone daughter, Desiree Austin successful 2017.

"I miss her mundane and she was a portion of my satellite and I consciousness I don't person thing due to the fact that she's gone," said Magaña.

On August 31, Desiree went retired to observe a friend's birthday.

"I told her, 'Be careful.' I go, 'I emotion you.' She said, 'I emotion you, too.' and she left," said Magaña.

Those were the past words Lydia would speech with her 15-year-old daughter.

The Selma High sophomore was deed by gunfire during a drive-by shooting successful beforehand of a friend's location adjacent Mills and Olive streets successful Selma.
Action News was successful the country the adjacent time and spoke to the teen's person who was determination the nighttime of the shooting.

"She looked truthful overmuch successful shock, she wasn't saying thing to me. I conscionable told her to support her eyes connected maine and to support breathing," said Desiree's friend.

Desiree was taken to a section infirmary and rushed into country wherever doctors worked to prevention her life.

"They came retired and told maine she was doing bully -- that they sewed her heart, but erstwhile they did that she flat-lined and she didn't marque it," said Magaña.

Nearly a decennary later, the Fresno County Sheriff's Office revealed a caller pb successful Desiree's homicide connected Friday.

Detectives released conveyance accusation tied to the fishy described arsenic a bluish 2002 Buick Rendezvous with a California licence sheet 7-E-D-R-7-4-7.

According to investigators, witnesses said they saw 2 radical wrong that conveyance -- a pistillate operator and a antheral passenger. Another imaginable tip: the Sheriff's Office believes the firearm utilized successful Desiree's case, whitethorn beryllium linked to a abstracted shooting successful Fresno County.

Lydia felt it was clip to stock her communicative with different grieving mothers who person mislaid children to weapon violence.

"Don't springiness up due to the fact that I'm present 9 years aboriginal and this is happening. Trust successful God and enactment strong. I cognize it's hard," said Magaña.

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