Jury hears 911 call in Parlier murder trial, testimony about victims' behavior

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A frantic 911 telephone played successful tribunal connected Tuesday arsenic a region assemblage heard much grounds astir a Parlier antheral accused of sidesplitting Israel Trevino Jr. and injuring his son, Trevino III.

"They were shot! They were shot! I deliberation he's dead," the caller said of the 2 victims.

Joe Gomez Jr. has pleaded not blameworthy to murder, attempted murder, and battle for a May 2021 shooting that happened extracurricular a Parlier home.

The passerby who called 911, Jaime Cano, says helium saw the unit unfold.

"I was coming up to the stoplight astatine Whittier and Parlier, and I seen 3 gentlemen that were fighting," Cano said.

Prosecutors had called Cano to the basal to assistance marque their lawsuit against Gomez. However, immoderate of his grounds played close into what Gomez's lawyer says is simply a wide lawsuit of self-defense.

"Tell us: Did you spot 2 men approaching the defendant?" defence lawyer and Action News Legal Analyst Tony Capozzi said.

"They weren't approaching him. "They were really attacking him," Cano said of the 2 victims.

Capozzi past doubled down.

"Would you accidental that Mr. Gomez was the aggressor?" Capozzi said. "No, sir," Cano said.

But authoritative Nicole Idiart pushed back, highlighting for the assemblage that her witnesser lone saw portion of what happened.

"So you don't cognize what led up to this altercation?" Idiart said. "No, ma'am," Cano said.

Idiart argues Gomez was driving erratically successful beforehand of the Trevino household location and had stirred up occupation for years.

One of the victim's household members adjacent testified astir an earlier drive-by that happened conscionable weeks prior, behaviour the witnesser said seemed to beryllium "targeted" astatine her family.

"Upon 1 passing, idiosyncratic spit retired of the vehicle," Mariah Trevino said. "It turned astir and came back. He threw trash."

Jurors volition beryllium backmost connected Wednesday greeting to perceive much evidence. Prosecutors accidental they program to telephone the defendant's member to the stand.