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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Just earlier 3 a.m. Thursday disconnected Children's Boulevard adjacent the southbound ramp onto Highway 41, drivers adjacent Valley Children's Hospital were near successful daze arsenic they reported a pistillate parked connected the broadside of the road, had acceptable a antheral connected fire.
That pistillate has been identified arsenic 56-year-old Jessie Equilla Brooks of Fresno.
"This is conscionable 1 of those genuinely unsocial and shocking instances wherever this is 1 of those things that happens possibly erstwhile successful a vocation oregon it's highly rare," said Madera County Sheriff Tyson Pogue.
Sheriff Pogue says archetypal reports received indicated Brooks, the operator of the Mercedes sedan located connected scene, had acceptable occurrence to her passenger, a antheral believed to beryllium her husband.
They accidental the man, who has yet to beryllium identified, was dormant and inactive burning connected arrival.
"We're not wholly definite astatine this constituent if the antheral perished conscionable from the occurrence oregon determination was thing else," said Pogue. "That volition benignant of beryllium worked retired successful the autopsy."
The Madera County Sheriff's Office says an accelerant was utilized to ignite the man's body.
On scene, aft not cooperating with responding deputies, they accidental Brooks was arrested and is facing a execution charge.
While investigators cannot accidental yet arsenic to whether the 2 were hubby and wife, they tin corroborate determination is immoderate benignant of transportation betwixt the 2 people.
"This was an isolated incidental and the persons were known to each other. So, it wasn't immoderate random enactment of unit oregon thing else," said the sheriff.
Pogue says they volition merchandise the man's individuality erstwhile they tin notify his adjacent of kin with quality of the incident.
"Not precise overmuch happens retired here. It's a quiet, precise harmless assemblage and so, incidents similar this are ever shocking," helium said.
