Fresno man shot by parole officer was unarmed, lawyer says

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno lawyer says determination is overmuch we don't cognize astir 26-year-old Jeremy Sanchez's decease aft helium was fatally changeable by a parole officer connected Christmas Eve.

According to police, the shooting took spot astatine astir 12:30 p.m. connected the 300 artifact connected West Cortland Avenue. Officials accidental during the parole officer's visit, a carnal altercation took spot and the parole serviceman opened occurrence connected the parolee.

Officials accidental contempt the agent’s efforts to execute life-saving measures, Sanchez died astatine the scene. The parole serviceman sustained insignificant injuries.

Fresno-based lawyer Stuart Chandler says the archetypal reports don't person each the facts. Chandler says constabulary neglected to notation that Sanchez was unarmed, making further reappraisal of the incidental of the utmost importance.

Under the law, deadly unit tin lone beryllium utilized to support against an imminent menace of decease oregon superior bodily wounded to the serviceman oregon different person. We volition cognize much erstwhile an autopsy study is available; I judge it volition corroborate astatine slightest 1 gunshot coiled was to the backmost of the caput oregon cervix confirming that helium was moving distant from and not threatening the officer.

YourCentralValley.com did scope retired to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. In a statement, the authorities bureau says "the confrontation escalated to the constituent wherever the cause fired his work weapon, striking Sanchez."

As the probe continues, officials adhd that autopsy findings and a reappraisal by the CDCR’s Deadly Force Review Board volition shed much airy connected the circumstances surrounding Sanchez’s death.