"It breaks my heart": Former coworker speaks about central Fresno clinic shooting victim

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As the assemblage reacts to that shocking shooting wrong a cardinal Fresno Family Health Care clinic, caller details astir the worker critically wounded, successful what constabulary judge to beryllium a targeted attack.

A erstwhile unit subordinate of the clinic, who asked america to conceal her identity, opening up astir the victim.

She says she antecedently worked with the woman, believed to beryllium successful her 30's.

"It came arsenic heartbreaking for maine that she had to spell done this," the erstwhile worker said.

In an interrogation exclusive to Action News, she spoke of the compassion the unfortunate carried with her each time astatine the clinic.

"A bully woman. She truly cared astir her patients, she would effort to bash immoderate she could, you know, to get them the things that they needed," the erstwhile worker said.

The shooting happened Thursday morning, with much than 4 twelve people, employees and patients, inside,

Exclusive video obtained by Action News captured radical moving to information arsenic gunfire erupted.

Police accidental 69-year-old Bounlab Thammavong, a diligent of the clinic, was the gunman, shooting the unfortunate wrong of an exam country earlier constabulary arrested him connected scene.

The erstwhile employee, inactive trying to wrapper her caput astir what happened.

"I person nary thought what you cognize would person motivated thing similar that," she said. "She had seen him before. That wasn't their archetypal meeting."

And Saturday, the pistillate sharing heartbreaking caller details with us.

Through erstwhile coworkers, she learned a antheral clinician rushed to the victim's aid, moments aft she was changeable respective times.

"I deliberation about, you know, what he's going through, what he's surviving with, due to the fact that that was his colleague, and that, you know, from the infinitesimal anybody is going to be, you know, walking into that place, it's present wholly changed," the pistillate said.

Through it all, the erstwhile employee, remembering the unfortunate arsenic she was earlier this traumatic lawsuit and hoping she'll instrumentality to her lukewarm and caring self.

"I have, you know, a imaginativeness of her and astatine that time, inactive her fiancé, dancing together..." the erstwhile worker said. "And it's just, it's truly hard, and it conscionable perfectly breaks my bosom for that household that they're dealing with this."

The unfortunate is inactive successful captious but unchangeable information astatine Community Regional Medical Center.

Action News reached retired to Family Health Care Network but did not perceive back.

Earlier this week, the web released the pursuing statement:

"Family HealthCare Network's Fresno Clinton wellness halfway experienced a tragic incidental this greeting that progressive an progressive shooting. We are thankful to our squad and the authorities who rapidly responded to this situation. Our interest is to guarantee our squad members and patients are receiving the enactment needed to heal from this incident, and astir importantly, our prayers are with our squad subordinate progressive and their family," stated Kerry Hydash, President & CEO.

"Family HealthCare Network is cooperating with instrumentality enforcement to guarantee the information of our squad members and patients. As this is an progressive investigation, we are deferring to instrumentality enforcement for further details."