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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – An ongoing probe successful Madera is making advancement aft a 16-year-old was arrested and charged with homicide.
On July 6, a combat broke retired astatine a quinceañera. A 13-year-old and a 15-year-old were stabbed and different teen was deed successful the caput with a blunt object. The 13-year-old died of his injuries.
“During that celebration, determination was a combat that broke retired betwixt rival pack members. Not everyone determination was a pack member, but determination was a mates of antithetic groups of pack members successful attendance," Madera Police Department Commander Josiah Arnold said.
The 16-year-old was taken into custody 2 days aft the incidental connected an unrelated charge. But aft detectives did immoderate digging, they were capable to sanction the 16-year-old arsenic a fishy successful the homicide case.
“It's inactive an ongoing probe and it besides involves minors. And truthful there's not a batch of item successful the homicide investigation," Commander Arnold said.
Because of the engagement of pack members astatine a enactment filled with kids, Commander Arnold has a beardown connection for parents.
“If parents announcement that their kids are abruptly wearing a batch of reddish oregon a batch of bluish oregon associating with the missive N oregon M oregon the numbers 14 oregon 13 and these are conscionable a fewer communal pack identifiers successful our area. But if parents announcement that benignant of behavior, they're invited to telephone instrumentality enforcement immoderate bureau that they whitethorn unrecorded in," Commander Arnold said.
Commander Arnold was besides shocked by the deficiency of assistance instrumentality enforcement received from the homicide witnesses.
“One of the frustrating things successful this lawsuit was the deficiency of practice from, frankly, children who were connected scene. These people, adjacent during the pack fight, look to beryllium having a large time, and we're oblivious to the information that idiosyncratic could suffer their beingness and yet did suffer their life," Commander Arnold said.
It's inactive unclear if the 16-year-old volition beryllium charged arsenic a juvenile oregon arsenic an adult.
