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HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Mexican authorities are moving with the Kings County Sheriff's Office aft deputies judge the suspected slayer of a pistillate successful Hanford, who besides took her kids, could person fled to Mexico.
At astir 4 p.m. on Tuesday, deputies were called to a location connected Fourth Place adjacent Orchard Drive for a payment check.
Deputies accidental the victim's household was acrophobic aft she didn't reply the telephone and that raised reddish flags.
"She didn't reply the doorway and they had a feeling thing was wrong. And I'm not 100% definite wherefore they had that feeling astatine this time. So they called the sheriff's office, and portion deputies were heading to the scene, the household made introduction into the house," Sgt. Andrew Mazza with the Kings County Sheriff's Office said.
They recovered 22-year-old Madeline Rose Cuevas fatally shot.
Her 2 daughters, two-year-old Alana and three-year-old Arya were obscurity to beryllium found.
"Deputies arrived connected country determined she was deceased from a gunshot wound," Mazza said.
Mazza says the suspect, 23-year-old Jonathan Alexis Maldonado-Cruz, had fled the scene.
They judge helium mightiness beryllium trying to flight into Mexico.
"It is precise concerning that helium is presently connected the tally and has perchance a firearm oregon entree to firearms," Mazza said.
An Amber alert has been issued for Maldonado-Cruz, who near the location successful a grey 2020 Hyundai Elantra with the California licence sheet 8LZD084.
The sheriff's bureau described Maldonado arsenic 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 215 pounds with achromatic hairsbreadth and achromatic eyes.
Mazza says this is the archetypal homicide of 2025 for the Kings County Sheriff's office, and adds this probe is peculiarly troubling.
"The parental abduction information is precise antithetic and uncommon for our area. And that is of precocious concern, of course," Mazza said.
They accidental the FBI and Mexican authorities are trying to way him down and bring Alana and Arya backmost to safety.
"Of course, we would similar to apprehension the fishy and bring, prosecute oregon bring an apprehension and hopefully prosecution for the family. But close now, our main interest is locating and the children," Mazza said.
Anyone with accusation astir wherever Maldonado-Cruz is located is asked to interaction the Kings County Sheriff's Office.
