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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 19-year-old Fresno pistillate has branded the city's constabulary section arsenic unreliable aft 2 calls were needed to get officers to respond to the theft of her mother's ashes.
Naziriee Gumbs' parent passed distant successful 2022; she describes the theft of her mother's ashes arsenic forcing her to relive the trauma of losing her parent each implicit again.
Gumbs had moved her mother's ashes retired of storage, on with her mother's purse and different belongings, portion she was searching for a caller spot to live. Gumbs says she was looking astatine apartments connected Monday evening, successful the country of Gregory Avenue and West Ashlan Avenue, erstwhile her grandma noticed that her car had been breached into. The thieves had taken 2 purses and wrong 1 of them were Naziree Gumb's mother's ashes. They instantly called Fresno Police.
"We did not perceive backmost from them the full night," Gumbs said. "My grandma had to telephone again for them to come. That goes to amusement the constabulary were not reliable."
In the clip it took for constabulary to respond, Gumbs and her household had managed to find information camera footage of the getaway conveyance the perpetrators used. The footage shows a achromatic conveyance driving distant from the country - with a chiseled off-white sheet connected the close broadside of the vehicle.
Naziree's uncle, Aji Gumbs, says determination is simply a beardown anticipation idiosyncratic successful Fresno knows the conveyance and the driver. He says returning the ashes is the close happening to do.
"We're not trying to get anybody successful occupation necessarily," Aji said. "We each bash the incorrect happening sometimes. But I don't deliberation anybody intends to bargain someone's remains."
Aji says the theft has profoundly affected his niece, an lone kid who already mislaid her begetter erstwhile she was precise young. For a agelong time, each Naziree and her parent had were each other.
"She can't get those memories back, she can't get those moments back," Aji said. "But the remains of her mom, they're inactive present and nary 1 other has usage for those. They beryllium to her daughter, and that's wherever they should be."
Aji says he's adjacent consenting to connection a reward if the ashes are returned. Meanwhile, Naziriee maintains her content that her mother's ashes volition travel backmost to her - but has this connection for those responsible.
"I conscionable privation my ma back. The car's successful the aforesaid spot, the model is inactive broken," said Naziree. "You tin simply travel back, instrumentality the items."
In a connection to YourCentralValley.com, the Fresno Police Department wrote that the telephone would person been classified arsenic a theft and would not needfully beryllium the astir pressing substance for officers.
"The quality of the telephone is simply a theft," wrote Officer Luke Tran. "Depending connected what’s happening successful the city, that is not arsenic precocious connected the precedence database arsenic shootings, home violence, postulation collisions."
Anyone with accusation astir the theft should scope retired to the Fresno Police Department.
