Family mourns woman killed in Merced as suspect's preliminary hearing is postponed

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- The household of a pistillate who was killed extracurricular a Merced enactment past twelvemonth is continuing to combat for justice.

The victim's loved ones accidental Kaylie Lynn Allen was adjacent Grogan and West Avenues erstwhile she was changeable and killed.

Tears fell from Cheryl Dunigan's look arsenic she remembered her granddaughter, Kaylie Lynn Allen.

"If you were friends with her, you were friends for life. She ever stuck up for the underdog. She loved animals, precise caring. Full of love, afloat of life," recalled Dunigan.

Merced constabulary accidental Allen was changeable and killed extracurricular a enactment connected April 21st, 2023 by Jose Kevin Valencia- Zavala.

The suspected shooter was astatine the Merced Superior tribunal connected Monday for his preliminary hearing.

Detectives accidental Valencia-Zavala got upset and started warring with others erstwhile helium wasn't allowed wrong a enactment adjacent Grogan and West Avenues.

Police accidental Valencia- Zavala near the country but came backmost and started shooting astatine radical extracurricular of the gathering.

Allen died astatine the scene.

"He doesn't recognize the airy that helium conscionable extinguished. He doesn't recognize wherefore helium took distant from truthful galore of us, she was everything to me," Dunigan explained.

The suspected shooter was arrested astir a period later, connected May 18th, 2023.

Monday, Valencia- Zavala's preliminary proceeding was pushed backmost again, frustrating the victim's family.

Dunigan says she has a hard clip accepting that her granddaughter is gone.

"I've been present each day, and I volition proceed to beryllium present each day. Because she hast to cognize that she was worthy something," said Dunigan.

Valencia- Zavala is expected to beryllium backmost successful tribunal for his preliminary proceeding connected October 23rd.

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