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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Community members are speaking retired astir the onslaught that astir killed a City of Fresno worker.
56-year-old Tim Smith volunteered to enactment an overtime shift in Chinatown connected April 11. Police accidental that's erstwhile the suspect, identified arsenic Dyllan Padavona, allegedly walked up to Smith and stuck him successful the backmost of the caput with an object.
Mercedes Carrillo has worked astatine Cuca's, located connected 907 F Street, for the past 23 years. She explained that she was highly shocked to find retired what happened to Smith.
"I'm utilized to seeing radical retired present each the time, you know, they're not successful their close mind," she said. "They've ne'er been truly that vicious. To travel successful and dainty america that way."
Since Friday, Carillo says it's been concern arsenic usual, but the brutality of Smith's onslaught is what's astir concerning for her.
"It's conscionable crazy. It's heartbreaking," she said. "I don't deliberation it's a Chinatown problem. I think, successful general, it's a City of Fresno problem," she noted.
She says Smith ate astatine Cuca's each the time, sometimes adjacent connected his days off.
"He ever came successful with a smile. You know? 'Hey, Mercedes, however are you doing?'" she said with a smile.
Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias oversees the country wherever the onslaught happened.
"We've successfully been capable to permanently location much than 8,000 people. But a precise tiny percent of the unhoused assemblage are continuously committing crimes successful our city," helium said. "So far, we person invested $400 cardinal successful providing lodging and services for the homeless."
Mayor Jerry Dyer says helping everyone successful Fresno consciousness harmless is thing that's ever apical of mind.
"Any convulsive transgression is not acceptable anywhere, whether it's successful Chinatown oregon successful northeast Fresno," helium said. "We're perpetually looking astatine ways to amended the information of our metropolis workers arsenic good arsenic conscionable the information of that full area. Any clip you person an incidental similar that, we summation our visibility of patrol officers wrong that peculiar area."
According to Fresno Police, Padavona has a past of battle connected constabulary officers, resisting arrest, trespassing, and vandalism.
In transportation to the onslaught connected Smith, Padavona faces respective charges, including attempted homicide. If convicted, helium could look up to 12 years successful prison.
Padavona's arraignment is acceptable for April 16 astatine 8:30 a.m.
