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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno household woke up to devastating quality Thursday.
22-year-old Anthony Calderon was changeable to decease extracurricular an flat analyzable connected Fedora Avenue and Pleasant Street astatine 2 a.m. Thursday.
He is the 28th homicide in Fresno this year.
“To person this accusation connected Thanksgiving with 20-plus household members present astatine [head]quarters is wholeheartedly a calamity that nary 1 should ever endure,” Fresno Police Lieutenant Paul Cervantes said.
Calderon’s household says their Thanksgiving was tainted by tragedy.
“It’s ne'er going to beryllium the same. It volition astir apt - we’re ne'er going to observe this holiday,” Calderon’s aunt Alyssa Tellez said.
Police accidental Calderon was not the lone victim, though.
They accidental 3 men were lasting extracurricular the flat analyzable astatine 2 a.m., minding their ain business.
Police accidental that is erstwhile a radical of men walked up and fired astatine them 54 times.
“It's my content that these individuals were specifically targeted conscionable based connected the fig of rounds that were fired,” Cervantes said.
Calderon was killed astatine the scene, a 28-year-old antheral is successful the infirmary with a gunshot coiled to his little assemblage and a 23-year-old antheral was unharmed.
Cervantes says he’s not definite wherefore they were targeted.
“They're not pack members. They're conscionable your average, everyday, mean beings extracurricular astatine 2 successful the morning, minding their ain business, smoking a cigarette,” Cervantes said.
“he didn't merit to spell similar that. You know, whoever did this is horrible. Like, why?” Tellez said.
Police bash not person immoderate suspects successful custody, truthful they request the public’s help.
“Go backmost to your video surveillance systems. Look astatine the video successful and astir 2 successful the morning. Sometimes the things successful that video, possibly innocuous, whitethorn not look similar it's a precise large deal, but for detectives, it's a precise large portion of the puzzle,” Cervantes said.
Anyone with accusation is encouraged to interaction the Fresno Police Department.
Cervantes says the probe got a dilatory commencement due to the fact that adjacent businesses with surveillance cameras were closed for Thanksgiving.
Even so, constabulary are determined to get the probe backmost connected way and get justness for Calderon’s family.
Anyone who wishes to enactment them tin springiness to their official GoFundMe.
