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LEMOORE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two suspects, including a teenager, were arrested Tuesday greeting aft a bid of shootings took spot successful Lemoore this month, the Lemoore Police Department announced.
According to police, connected July 7, astatine astir 7:30 p.m., they responded to the 900 artifact of Alpen Drive for a study of a shooting into a home. Upon inspection, they recovered the location had been struck, but nary 1 was injured.
Then, connected July 15, conscionable earlier midnight, officers accidental they were sent to the aforesaid location aft it was struck by gunfire again.
As officers were responding, they received different telephone for a shooting adjacent Cinnamon Drive and Hanford Armona Road. Officers learned the unfortunate was driving erstwhile idiosyncratic fired astatine him for reasons unknown. A location successful that country was besides struck.
Detectives study they were yet capable to place a 17-year-old lad from Corcoran arsenic 1 of the suspects. Investigators aboriginal identified 20-year-old Marco Hernandez-Tejada of Visalia arsenic another. Lemoore PD issued warrants for their arrests for aggregate counts of attempted homicide and shooting astatine an inhabited dwelling.
On Tuesday morning, officers accidental they served a hunt warrant, with the assistance of a SWAT Team, to the 1700 artifact of Brewer Avenue successful Corcoran and took the teen into custody. Visalia Police assisted with serving a hunt warrant successful the 5000 artifact of Damsen Avenue and took Hernandez-Tejada into custody.
Police accidental Hernandez-Tejada was booked into the Kings County Jail, and the teen was booked into the Kings County Juvenile Justice Center. Both are being held with nary bail.
