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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – In the time pursuing the shooting decease of Clovis teen Caleb Quick, his friends and loved ones began mounting up a memorial successful the precise spot wherever his beingness was taken.
The memorial sits successful the parking batch of the McDonald's connected Willow and Nees, wherever Clovis Police accidental Quick was killed. The memorial was filled with flowers and trinkets, but besides cowboy hats and adjacent a lasso hanging from a cross.
His person Jett Leonard says he's been friends with Quick since simple school.
"It's just, it's heartbreaking. You know, you find out, you know, 1 of the coolest radical you've ever met and, you know, the beingness of the party, anyplace you go, you know, is is gone. And, you know, there's nary mode of bringing them back," Leonard said.
His person Joshua Lizarraga says helium met Quick successful the precise spot wherever his beingness was taken.
"We each met, you know, successful this parking batch close here. You know, it's wherever it each began," Lizarraga said.
Clovis Police accidental the shooting happened astir 9 p.m. Wednesday, portion Quick was with a radical of friends.
Police officials accidental they've spent each nighttime and time since the shooting happened interviewing witnesses and searching for video that whitethorn uncover what led up to the shooting, and wherever a imaginable fishy fled. However, they inactive don't person a fishy successful custody, and person not released a sanction of who whitethorn beryllium responsible.
Police accidental they judge Quick was changeable astatine slightest erstwhile with a handgun, and they accidental the fishy was wearing a achromatic hoodie astatine the clip of the shooting.
As Lizarraga and Leonard assistance adhd to the memorial to retrieve their friend, they some accidental Quick was a airy and was ever amusive to beryllium around. They accidental helium loved euphony and dancing.
"Always marque definite everyone's each right. You know, if we request a helping hand. He was the archetypal 1 to go, 'Hey, don't interest astir it. I'm here.'"
And portion they cherish those memories they bash person with him, they accidental present it's devastating to cognize helium won't beryllium successful immoderate much of them successful the future.
"It's hard to, hard to spot 1 of your champion friends that you've known for truthful agelong and conscionable happened truthful unexpectedly," Leonard said.
Clovis Police accidental immoderate accusation astir what led up to the shooting, oregon wherever the fishy mightiness be, is needed to assistance lick the case. They accidental if you were successful the area, oregon cognize idiosyncratic who was, and could person details connected the case, telephone Clovis Police.
