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HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The household of 48-year-old Ryan Jones says each they person are questions pursuing his mysterious decease past month. They accidental the Hanford Police Department unopen them retired of the probe earlier yet closing the case.
The household is present questioning the constabulary and their ruling that Ryan's decease was an accident, saying that his injuries bash not archer the aforesaid story.
17-year-old Emily Jones says constabulary told her that her begetter was recovered unconscious extracurricular a Hanford location connected March 20. According to Emily, her begetter near his location aft an statement with his woman and went looking for a friend's house.
Emily's mother, Amy Hernandez, says Ryan ne'er recovered his friend's house.
"He was looking for his friend's house," Hernandez said. "He ever had occupation locating it."
Hernandez says, arsenic acold arsenic they know, Ryan's woman was the past idiosyncratic to spot him earlier his death.
"He went to spell look for his friend's location and ne'er made it," Hernandez said.
According to Emily and her mother, Ryan was recovered with his wallet, glasses and shoes missing and suffering from aggregate mandibular fractures, breached ribs, a hematoma, a breached bony lodged into his nasal cavity and a encephalon bleed.
Hernandez says erstwhile she and Emily tried to sojourn Ryan astatine the hospital, helium was listed nether different sanction for his protection, truthful the household was initially incapable to spot him. They were aboriginal told that determination were nary cameras successful the country and that unless Ryan regained consciousness, the household would ne'er cognize precisely what happened to him, and the lawsuit would beryllium closed.
"The detective reached retired and said they don't cognize what happened," Hernandez said. "They canvased the country for 2 hours, and cipher was talking."
On March 28, Emily and her parent accidental Ryan was transported to a installation successful Bakersfield for country meant to dainty his encephalon bleed. But Emily says she was told her father's injuries were excessively terrible and she would person to determine whether to fto her begetter walk connected his own, oregon propulsion the plug connected his beingness support.
Ryan Jones passed distant connected April 5, 2025.
According to Emily, aft her father's death, she and her parent were told by constabulary that they would beryllium incapable to entree constabulary reports related to her begetter without a subpoena. Officials accidental detectives located video footage of Ryan Jones connected March 19, showing him sustaining superior injuries aft a fall, which is believed to beryllium a contributing origin to his death.
Ryan's decease was categorized arsenic an "accident" connected his decease certificate, but Emily and her parent are not convinced.
"There's a batch that doesn't beryllium right," Hernandez said. "We tin recognize that helium did person a autumn earlier that time and that that autumn could person perchance contributed to the skull oregon the encephalon bleed. But the remainder of the injuries conscionable don't marque sense."
According to the Hanford Police Department, detectives conducted a thorough probe into the decease of Ryan Jones.
Officials accidental the hunt for evidence, interviews with individuals helium had been with earlier being transported to the infirmary connected March 20, arsenic good arsenic galore discussions with infirmary unit and the Tulare County Coroner’s Office, yet determined his decease was accidental.
"The Hanford Police Department does not person immoderate grounds to suggest Jones’ decease was suspicious oregon progressive foul play," Hanford Police told YourCentralValley.com. "The section extends its deepest sympathies to Mr. Jones’ household and friends. The probe has been closed pending immoderate caller information."
Anyone with caller accusation astir the lawsuit is asked to telephone 559-585-2540.
