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REEDLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Authorities person identified 43-year-old Yesennia Rocha arsenic the pistillate changeable and killed during a home unit incidental successful Reedley connected Saturday night.
Friends accidental Rocha, oregon "Jessie" arsenic they called her, was afloat of life, energy, and ever the 1 to assistance others up. “We would substance each day. We person our ain small radical chat that we person arsenic our friends,” Martha Amezcua said.
Another friend, Darleen Toews, remembered Rocha arsenic idiosyncratic whose beingness could airy up a room. “She was a beauteous idiosyncratic wrong and out. Her grin was radiant,” she said.
Investigators accidental Rocha was gunned down by her estranged husband, 43-year-old Michael Rocha, during a household gathering conscionable earlier 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Amezcua said she past heard from her person astir 6:40 a.m. that aforesaid day. Hours later, she got a FaceTime telephone from her radical chat that shattered her world. “They’re like, it’s Jessie, she’s dead, she was changeable by her husband,” she shared.
Deputies accidental Michael fled the scene. Less than 24 hours later, he was killed during a pursuit and shootout with instrumentality enforcement successful Tulare County aft firing shots retired of his car window.
Friends accidental they sometimes noticed Michael’s controlling behavior. “There were definite outings that we had, and she wasn’t a portion of. And we cognize it was due to the fact that of that,” Amezcua said.
Advocates accidental that’s often the informing sign. Nicole Linder, CEO of the Marjaree Mason Center, urged others to wage attraction to those reddish flags. “If you find yourself saying, ‘he gets huffy when…he doesn’t similar it when…’ — that’s the clip to halt and measure your safety. Trust your gut. Please fto this beryllium a wake-up call,” she said.
Friends accidental Yesennia showed courageousness erstwhile she made the determination to permission her husband. “When she decided to leave, I thought she’s the bravest person. She wanted freedom, and for her to consciousness that state adjacent for a small while—that was a win,” Amezcua said.
Now, they’re near wondering if they could person done more. “It’s hard because, I mean, you truly request that enactment system, and we thought it was a bully system. And successful the end, I conjecture it wasn’t,” Amezcua said.
Yesennia's friends privation her to beryllium remembered not for the mode she died, but for her courage, joy, and agleam tone that touched truthful galore lives.
A GoFundMe has been acceptable up for the household of Yesennia Rocha and tin beryllium found here.
