Fresno murder suspect kicks chair during police interview, recording shows

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- An accused Fresno murderer sat calmly successful tribunal connected Tuesday arsenic prosecutors wrapped up their evidence, arguing that David Hernandez killed Sarah Hamm astatine her Northeast Fresno flat successful August 2021.

The victim's obituary remembers Hamm arsenic a loving parent of 3 boys, an entrepreneur who was progressive successful her church, and a erstwhile Miss Fresno County.

As her accused slayer took notes successful the courtroom, prosecutors showed a overmuch antithetic broadside of him to the jurors who volition soon determine his fate.

Action News cannot amusement his face, but you tin spot Hernandez during his recorded interrogation with constabulary officers. They had not started asking questions, but Hernandez was already physically fed up arsenic helium kicked the table.

Moments later, officers swabbed Hernandez's hands and took photos of the tattoos connected his chest. Then, they started asking questions.

"Do you cognize wherefore you're here?" an researcher asked. "Why?" Hernandez said. "Do you cognize why?" the researcher asked again.

Hernandez was reluctant to unfastened up. The interrogation occurred conscionable hours aft prosecutors accidental helium changeable and killed his girlfriend.

"What happened today?" the researcher asked. "What was going done your mind?"

The 45-year-old besides faces charges for a carjacking and equipped robbery that happened the aforesaid time of the alleged murder.

A Fresno Police Department sergeant took the basal connected Tuesday, telling the assemblage however investigators connected the scenes.

"We had accusation that the fishy progressive successful this (Champlain and Perrin) robbery that took spot astatine the fume store was astatine that location," Sergeant Manpreet Uppal said.

The assemblage already heard grounds astir the fume store robbery, and they saw this surveillance video past week. It showed Hernandez holding a weapon conscionable inches distant from the clerk's face.

Hernandez has denied each the charges and pleaded not guilty. Now, his defence lawyer is making his lawsuit to jurors.

The proceedings volition proceed Wednesday morning.

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