Man killed outside a party in Downtown Fresno identified, police confirm

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The antheral who was changeable and killed extracurricular a enactment successful Downtown Fresno connected Friday nighttime has been identified arsenic 38-year-old Meharie Kidane, Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto confirmed Monday afternoon.

It happened astatine astir 11 p.m. connected March 20 adjacent the intersection of Fulton and Inyo streets.

Chief Casto says determination was a adjacent enactment with astir 300 radical attending erstwhile a combat broke out.

The lawsuit information cleared the area, and the assemblage was pushed retired into the street.

That's erstwhile shots were fired.

It happened conscionable hours earlier the yearly FresYes Fest, which already had heightened patrols assigned to the area.

"We had a fig of other units down there, my girl was there, you know, arsenic a testament that downtown Fresno is inactive a harmless spot to be, but unit tin interruption retired successful a fig of places, and tragically, we saw that mode excessively overmuch this weekend," Chief Casto said.

Kidane was taken to the hospital, wherever helium aboriginal died.

Fresno constabulary are inactive searching for the shooter.