Fresno Chinatown community shaken up after city employee was attacked

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- It was concern arsenic accustomed connected Saturday astatine Chef Paul's Cafe.

The Downtown edifice is simply a artifact distant from wherever constabulary accidental this man, 30-year-old Dyllan Padavona attacked a metropolis idiosyncratic connected Friday morning.

Video provided by the Fresno Police Department shows the fishy with a blunt entity earlier striking the metropolis worker adjacent Kern and G Streets.

Several hours aft the onslaught connected Friday, Padavona was arrested adjacent Santa Clara Street and Van Ness Avenue, little than a mile distant from wherever the onslaught happened.

Officials said the unfortunate is an electrician and has worked for the metropolis for 20 years.

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The victim, described by the metropolis arsenic a 57-year-old man, was connected the minds of radical successful Downtown Fresno connected Saturday.

"My heart, I conscionable privation to accidental to them, I commune for them," said Paul Pearson, the proprietor of Chef Paul's Cafe.

He's feeling the repercussions conscionable a time aft that callous attack.

The long-time downtown Fresno concern proprietor says he's received respective calls from customers checking successful connected him.

"We were impacted. Again, I accidental but not astir arsenic overmuch arsenic his household and friends," said Pearson. "My prayers spell to the family. Because everyone has to consciousness harmless going to work," said Orsine Sanchez-Quintero.

Orsine Sanchez-Quintero has worked successful the country for the past 15 years. He said Friday's onslaught has him connected edge.

Video provided by Sanchez-Quintero shows a antithetic antheral stomping connected his windshield astir a fewer months ago.

He said his car has been breached into and vandalized 3 times successful the past 4 years portion moving successful the area.

"As a community, we gotta instrumentality attraction of each other. So I would promote anybody, you spot something, accidental something. Especially successful this case, somebody's beingness is pending," said Sanchez-Quintero.

Action News has uncovered a lengthy transgression past for Padavona which includes respective misdemeanor and felony offenses. This onslaught is lone expected to beryllium added to that list.

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