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REEDLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Family, friends and assemblage members from Selma and Reedley gathered Friday nighttime connected the 2nd day of fallen Selma Police Officer Gonzalo Carrasco Jr.'s death.
Officer Carrasco was killed successful the enactment of work connected Jan. 31, 2023. Officers said helium was responding to a telephone astir a suspicious idiosyncratic erstwhile helium was ambushed. He died aft being changeable and killed.
Friday's wide successful his hometown of Reedley marked different twelvemonth of milestones passed and memories made without Carrasco.
"I truly got goosebumps erstwhile I entered the gathering and seeing everybody, mostly faces that I don't know. But evidently they cognize him. I was arrogant of that he's really my cousin," Carrasco's relative Thalia Salgado said.
The wide marking different twelvemonth of milestones, of memories and much clip without Carrasco.
"You cognize erstwhile you're with someone, you ne'er cognize erstwhile your past time is going to be," Carrasco's relative Jonathan Souza said. "I deliberation if helium was present and I would conscionable archer him that I'm arrogant of what he's accomplished. You know, being that helium was inactive young."
Gonzalo was lone 24 years aged erstwhile helium was killed. He adjacent was expecting a baby, 1 helium ne'er got to meet.
Unlike the remainder of the household surviving successful Reedley, Salgado and her girl Aalyia unrecorded successful Selma, wherever helium worked. They said helium would sometimes halt by erstwhile helium was connected patrol. Now erstwhile they spot an officer, it hurts.
"There's days wherever I'll spot a bull and I'll benignant of hide that he's not here, and I'll deliberation it's him and I'll effort to spot if it was him, but past I'm conscionable like, a reminder that he's not here," she said.
As much clip goes connected and 1 twelvemonth without him turns into two, Salgado said she is conscionable honored radical inactive privation to grant him and that his beingness volition beryllium remembered.
"I emotion him. I'm precise arrogant of him. I'll ever beryllium arrogant of him. He's a legend," she said.
This nonaccomplishment inactive hurts for members of the Selma Police Department. Officer Carrasco is the lone Selma constabulary serviceman to dice successful the enactment of duty.
