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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral was sentenced aft stabbing and sidesplitting different successful beforehand of a rehab halfway successful Fresno, the Fresno County District Attorney's Office said.
The DA reports 64-year-old Zyad Alsaid, of Fresno, was sentenced to 25 years to beingness successful authorities prison, positive an further twelvemonth for the usage of a knife, for the fatal stabbing of 32-year-old Matthew Chavez extracurricular the Vista Turning Point installation successful cardinal Fresno.
The condemnation follows Alsaid's involuntary manslaughter condemnation connected June 12. The DA says helium was antecedently charged with murder, but the assemblage returned a verdict connected the lesser-included offense. They besides recovered Alsaid was sane astatine the clip of the killing, contempt pleading not blameworthy "by crushed of insanity."
During sentencing, the victim's parent said, "At the hands and choices of Zyad Alsaid, my lad was violently killed. I volition person to unrecorded with this for the remainder of my life. There volition beryllium nary much tomorrows, nary much adventures, nary much hopes and dreams for my Matt. The suspect did not lone instrumentality my son's life; helium sentenced his household and friends to a beingness condemnation without him."
On June 14, 2019, Chavez was extracurricular the Turning Point Facility, wherever helium regularly attended enactment services. That's erstwhile officials accidental Alsaid approached him and stabbed him earlier fleeing the area.
First responders arrived astatine the country and recovered Chavez critically injured. He was transported to the hospital, wherever helium was aboriginal pronounced dead.
The DA's bureau reports that determination were nary witnesses to the incident, but surveillance footage captured Alsaid adjacent the country and leaving soon aft the attack. He was absent from his committee and attraction installation for respective days, but erstwhile helium came back, helium had altered his quality by shaving disconnected his agelong hairsbreadth and beard.
Court documents besides study that a weapon was aboriginal recovered down a adjacent business, containing Alsaid's and Chavez's DNA. Additionally, detectives discovered humor connected the jeans Alsaid wore that day. Alsaid denied knowing the unfortunate oregon adjacent being contiguous astatine the scene.
