Mother shares heartbreak after losing 20-year-old daughter in Hanford home invasion

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- A household is mourning the nonaccomplishment of a young parent successful Hanford arsenic questions regarding who changeable her stay unanswered.

Udean Silva describes her daughter, 20-year-old Nana Jeff Silva, arsenic a loving young parent of two.

"She was outgoing, she was entertaining, and she loved to dance, she was conscionable funny, she was a blessed girl," said Silva.

"She did everything for them."

Udean says Nana's toddler girl looks conscionable similar her, adding that her five-month-old babe volition ne'er get to cognize her mom.

Nana's beingness was chopped abbreviated aft Hanford constabulary accidental a radical of astir 5 men entered her location connected Holt Avenue connected Friday astir midnight.

Nana Jeff Silva and her 2 young children.

A loved 1 tells Action News she heard the young parent pleading with the shooters, saying her past words were "Please don't bash this, determination are children here."

"It's unfortunate, and it seems from our probe she was an guiltless bystander successful the full situation," says Hanford Police Lt. Chris Barker.

"This feels similar a targeted event, we don't consciousness anyone other is successful information successful the community, we judge determination was immoderate benignant of transportation to the victim, we conscionable don't cognize what it is," Lt. Barker explains.

Dozens of slug holes, immoderate seen from the extracurricular of the home, amusement the shooters were reckless, simply missing a parent and children, ages 2 to 17, sleeping inside.

"There were slug holes successful the mattress that 1 of them was sleeping on, similar underneath him and supra him done the windows. So, it's beauteous overmuch a occurrence that cipher else, nary of the children, oregon anyone other wrong the residence was shot," explains Lt. Barker.

Detectives are moving to constrictive down who could person committed specified a heinous crime.

As for her family, "It's heavy, trying to woody with the calamity that happened to my girl and dealing with the passing, it conscionable hurts," expresses Udean, "and not knowing who did it, it's conscionable mind-exhausting."

For Nana's family, done this nightmare, they person decided to donate her organs and assistance springiness others a 2nd accidental astatine life.

Her parent described Nana arsenic a giving person.

"She would assistance anybody. She had a large heart," said Udean.

Nana's Organ Donation Honor Walk volition instrumentality spot Friday day astatine Kaweah Health Medical Center successful Visalia.

The household has created a GoFundMe leafage to assistance with ceremonial expenses.

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