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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno Police are investigating yet different home unit homicide successful the city.
Police accidental they've arrested 42-year-old Timothy Goodloe for sidesplitting 32-year-old Kristina Meza.
While homicides are down this twelvemonth compared to years past, constabulary accidental they are noticing a concerning inclination astir what benignant of crimes are taking place.
By this clip successful 2024, the City of Fresno saw 7 homicides, which was already drastically little than past years. So acold successful 2025, the metropolis has seen 4 homicides. And portion it is simply a important decrease, constabulary accidental that of those four, 2 are home violence-related.
The latest of those cases took spot adjacent Peach and Hedges avenues successful southeast Fresno connected March 22. Fresno constabulary accidental 911 dispatchers got a telephone astir a pistillate successful aesculapian distress.
That pistillate has been identified arsenic Kristina Meza. EMS took her to Community Regional Medical Center successful an effort to prevention her life; however, she died astatine the hospital. They noticed that portion she had not been changeable oregon stabbed, she was severely injured, truthful officers were called to analyse her decease arsenic a homicide.
"We learned that the idiosyncratic liable for her decease is the existent 911 caller," Lieutenant Paul Cervantes with the Fresno Police Department said.
Police began their probe into 42-year-old Timothy Goodloe, who they identified arsenic the caller. He and Meza were besides successful a relationship.
Cervantes says Goodloe was determination erstwhile EMS came to assistance Meza, but helium near earlier the officers arrived. On Monday, they served a hunt warrant, and helium was taken into custody. After an interview, helium yet was booked into the Fresno County Jail on 1 number of murder.
But this wasn't the archetypal clip constabulary were called due to the fact that of Goodloe's alleged maltreatment against Meza. Cervantes says constabulary were called to their location connected March 10, conscionable 12 days earlier she was killed.
"That peculiar lawsuit was an unfastened probe wherever our home unit portion sought an apprehension warrant for Mr. Goodloe; attempts were made to apprehension him for that violation. And unluckily and tragically, that ne'er happened. And it led to a further incidence of home violence. And successful this case, it led to her death," helium said.
And that escalation of unit is what worries experts similar Leticia Campos astatine the Marjaree Mason Center.
"We spot cases successful which it goes from 0 to 100 precise quickly," she said.
She says often times, the rhythm of maltreatment worsens, but victims are incapable to leave, adjacent if they privation to.
"There's a batch of manipulation that is often there's a batch of manipulation that is often portrayed arsenic emotion for a unfortunate of home violence," Campos said.
Campos says the Marjaree Mason Center is determination to assistance those successful request astatine each times, and they are wholly confidential.
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