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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral has been arrested successful transportation with a homicide probe successful Merced County, the Merced County Sheriff's Office announced.
Dispatchers received a telephone for an unresponsive idiosyncratic adjacent Vine Avenue and Fruitland Avenue astir 7:45 p.m. connected Thursday successful Atwater, an country that deputies picture arsenic a typically quiescent one.
"It is portion of Atwater but determination is simply a manufacturing works nearby, there's orchards, there's ag land. They're benignant of ranchettes. There's not a batch of houses retired there. They're benignant of fewer and acold between," said Michelle Oliver, nationalist relations coordinator with the Merced County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies accidental upon arrival, they located an unresponsive antheral successful the street, who was suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics arrived and attempted to execute life-saving measures, but the unfortunate ended up succumbing to his injuries astatine the scene.
Sheriff's officials accidental they identified the fishy arsenic 36-year-old Straightarrow Justin McPherson, and deputies requested their SWAT squad and Investigations Bureau to the scene. The suspect, however, refused to travel retired of his location nearby.
After hours of negotiations, the Sheriff's Office says McPherson walked retired of the home, and helium was arrested aboriginal Friday morning.
Oliver, however, says McPherson was already known to instrumentality enforcement.
"I tin archer you helium was known to instrumentality enforcement. We were acquainted with him."
The Sheriff's Office is inactive moving to place a motive and whether determination was a anterior narration betwixt McPherson and the victim, whose household they are inactive moving to notify. However, Oliver says they are conscionable gladsome they were capable to get him disconnected the streets quickly.
"The past happening we privation to bash is respond retired to calls similar this. It's heartbreaking. Someone mislaid their beingness and that's not mislaid connected immoderate of us. The fishy was arrested and booked truthful hopefully everyone tin instrumentality a enactment of caller aerial that determination is nary menace to the assemblage astatine this time."
McPherson was booked into the Merced County Jail nether suspicion of homicide.
