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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Officials accidental 26-year-old Christian Luna is facing charges of attempted homicide, battle with a deadly weapon, carjacking, and conveyance theft aft 2 abstracted incidents successful conscionable 24 hours.
According to section authorities, Luna stole 2 cars successful antithetic areas astir the portion connected Sept. 24 unsocial — starting with a convulsive carjacking successful Fresno.
Fresno Police accidental the time started aboriginal for Luna, erstwhile conscionable earlier 12:30 a.m., helium was getting a thrust successful the country of Sierra Vista and Butler avenues successful Fresno, erstwhile helium attacked the operator and stabbed them respective times successful the precocious body.
The unfortunate told constabulary the 2 had gotten into an argument, starring Luna to stab him and unit him retired of the car, earlier driving disconnected with it himself.
The unfortunate was taken to CRMC; his presumption is unknown. His car was recovered, but Luna got away.
Later the aforesaid day, the California Highway Patrol says helium yet made his mode to an unspecified portion of the Reedley-Sanger area, wherever helium recovered different car moving and unoccupied.
“Obviously, it’s benignant of a textbook connected what not to do,” said CHP Public Information Officer Mike Salas. “The proprietor of this conveyance near his car moving with the keys inside, went wrong for a mates minutes. When helium returned, obviously, our fabulous crook took his car.”
Salas says the proprietor had a tracking app that helped officers find Luna arsenic helium took disconnected with the car.
“They were traveling adjacent 180 and McCall erstwhile they yet picked it up,” helium said.
Salas says officers past chased him into Clovis, adjacent Poe and Las Rosas avenues, earlier the antheral leapt retired of the stolen Honda Accord, going astir 15 miles per hr toward a home.
“That conveyance rolled into that residential house, crashed into the beforehand entryway, evidently caused a batch of harm for that homeowner,” Salas shared. “The idiosyncratic tried to fly connected foot, but acknowledgment to the Clovis Police Department and Highway Patrol, we were capable to coordinate and instrumentality that idiosyncratic safely, without incident, into custody.”
Salas says Luna was recovered with 2 realistic-looking airsoft pistols that “could person been utilized for thing other maliciously down the road.”
Miraculously, cipher successful the second incidental was injured.
Luna was booked into the Fresno County Jail, but helium bonded retired conscionable a time later. However, it didn’t instrumentality Fresno Police agelong to apprehension him again.
They linked him to the earlier stabbing and carjacking and accidental they took him into custody aboriginal Friday greeting successful downtown.
This is conscionable the latest run-in with instrumentality enforcement for Luna, who has a transgression past spanning astir a decade, including respective felony charges connected his record.
