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HANFORD, Calif. (KGPE/KSEE) – Hanford Police announced the apprehension of 27-year-old Rafael Estrada of Hanford Friday, accused of shooting 2 men successful a Walmart parking lot successful Hanford Thursday night.
He faces aggregate charges including execution and attempted execution aft helium was tracked to an flat analyzable successful Goshen astir 1 p.m. Friday.
As Hanford Police Lt. Justin Vallin announced his arrest, helium besides provided a grim update connected some victims.
"23-year-old Daniel Dawson, retired of Lemoore. He was one of the victims that died past nighttime astatine the scene. The different victim, an big male. He was taken to a section infirmary with a gunshot wound," Vallin said. "He is not expected to survive."
Vallin says the victims were successful a achromatic Jeep Cherokee with Estrada successful the parking batch of the Walmart connected S. 12th Avenue erstwhile helium says the fishy opened occurrence and caused the car to clang into different vehicle.
"Witnesses stated that the fishy got retired of the conveyance and ran from the scene. So, we judge the fishy was wrong the aforesaid conveyance arsenic the 2 victims," Vallin said.
As for however the constabulary were capable to place and way Estrada, Vallin explained it took an in-depth investigation, conversations with aggregate witnesses and a reappraisal of surveillance video of the country and surrounding area.
Less than 24-hours in, they were led to his location.
"We served a hunt warrant implicit there, and investigators with our thoroughfare crimes portion arsenic good arsenic the Kings County District Attorney's Office were capable to find him implicit astatine that flat analyzable and apprehension him arsenic helium got retired of a vehicle," Vallin said.
The country wherever it happened, straight crossed from an In-N-Out, is typically a quiescent 1 according to police. Vallin could not callback the past akin incident.
Now, they are successful the process of ironing retired exactly why it happened. However, they offered immoderate details about what may person brought the men together.
"We judge that amerciable cause income played a portion successful it. We don't cognize if that was the afloat motive of it though," Vallin said.
Police did uncover a weapon was recovered wrong the Jeep, but detectives and forensic teams volition person to enactment to fig retired whether oregon not it is the execution weapon.
