Man mourns loss of neighbor who was murdered in Tulare home

TULARE, Calif. (KFSN) -- Tulare Police proceed to analyse their 3rd homicide of the twelvemonth aft a antheral was recovered dormant wrong his home- conscionable minutes from the constabulary department.

The South Valley antheral was 48-year-old Travis Womack. His assemblage was recovered conscionable aft midnight connected Wednesday.

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"It's bittersweet that I mislaid idiosyncratic that was really a bully person. He's a precise bully man, precise benignant hearted, and precise responsible. You look to person taken attraction of things, it's a precise bittersweet tragedy," says Elijah Jones astir his neighbour Travis Womack.

Womack lived successful a quiescent country connected R Street adjacent Elm Avenue successful Tulare.

The 48 twelvemonth aged was recovered murdered wrong his location conscionable aft midnight connected Wednesday.

Moments before, Jones had called 911, aft proceeding idiosyncratic connected his property.

"He came into the backyard and we confronted him astatine our beforehand gross due to the fact that helium seemed suspicious. That's erstwhile I alerted the authorities, they came successful adjacent happening you cognize it was much than what I assumed," recalls Jones.

When constabulary arrived, they recovered 2 men, 26-year-old Steven Elizondo of Delano and 48-year-old Sakuma Lockhard of Tulare.

"They noticed they were acting suspicious and they besides noticed that the subjects had humor connected their covering and determination was humor connected the ground," describes Sgt. Rosa Moreno with the Tulare Police Department.

Officers followed the way of humor to a location wherever they recovered Womack's body.

Both Elizondo and Lockhard were taken into custody connected homicide charges.

Investigators recovered Lockhard and the unfortunate really knew each different from childhood.

"When things similar this hap it impacts the full assemblage arsenic a full truthful from the Tulare Police Department standpoint our bosom goes retired to victims successful the families of immoderate benignant of convulsive crime," expresses Sgt. Moreno.

The Tulare constabulary section says the probe is precise early, and they are asking anyone with accusation to travel forward.

The territory attorney's bureau plans to reappraisal the reports and past marque a determination astir filing charges.

Anyone with accusation tin interaction Detective Dan Scott astatine (559)685-2300 x 2153 oregon Sgt Eddie Hinojosa astatine (559)684-4390. You tin take to stay anonymous.

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