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VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Oval Park and the surrounding assemblage successful Visalia look calm connected Wednesday afternoon, but connected June 21st, 3 women were sexually assaulted by 1 antheral successful this area.
"There were 3 victims, each women. The ages were 73, 57 and 41," Liz Jones with the Visalia Police Department said.
The 57-year-old pistillate died from her injuries.
In the summer, the Visalia Police Department released surveillance video successful hopes of uncovering the suspect, 20-year-old Adrian Hernandez Medrano.
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The community, including the fellow of 1 of the victims, spoke retired successful vexation astatine the time.
"He fto spell of her rima and she said, 'Felix, Felix, get up' I deliberation I shattered his chemoreceptor oregon something," witnesser Felix Guerra said successful June
"I americium connected this broadside of municipality and everybody knows maine and fto maine archer you, I volition beryllium looking," a Visalia nonmigratory who wished not to beryllium identified said successful June.
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After respective hunt warrants issued by the Visalia Crimes Unit, Medrano was tracked retired of state.
Last week, detectives traveled to Alaska and with the assistance of Alaska State Troopers and the Soldotna Police Department, Medrano was recovered and arrested.
Jones says Medrano is besides tied to intersexual battle crimes from 2023, wherever astatine slightest 2 women were victims.
"All the victims from 2023 mentioned that the fishy was a young Hispanic male, cleanable shaven, tallness 5'3 and we had surveillance video truthful his carnal statement matches the June 2025 assaults," she said.
Action News spoke with respective radical adjacent Oval Park and Downtown Visalia who did not privation to spell connected camera but accidental the apprehension of Medrano was a agelong clip coming.
One man, who knows 1 of the victims, says the apprehension volition bring closure and alleviation for galore successful the assemblage fearing Oval Park.
Jones encourages anyone who experiences intersexual battle to talk up and study it.
"When victims travel forward, it not lone helps instrumentality enforcement place and halt unsafe individuals, but it tin forestall aboriginal crimes," she said.
Medrano is presently successful a region jailhouse successful Alaska and volition beryllium extradited backmost to Tulare County.
He faces aggregate charges of intersexual artillery and 1 number of homicide.
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