Officials to provide update on Fresno police officer shot during homicide investigation

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Fresno Police Department is expected to supply an update connected the serviceman who was changeable implicit the weekend.

The incidental started erstwhile Interim Chief Mindy Casto says respective officers responded to a ShotSpotter activation successful a vicinity adjacent Platt Avenue and Eighth Street connected Saturday. They would yet find a antheral successful the country dormant from a gunshot wound.

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As they were investigating, the fishy drove by officers astatine astir 6:30 p.m. and began shooting astatine them, hitting a Sergeant arsenic helium sat successful his patrol vehicle.

Casto described the shooting arsenic an ambush and said the fishy fired astatine a adjacent distance.

The Sergeant, a 21-year seasoned of the department, was rushed to Community Regional Medical Center successful Downtown Fresno, wherever helium is being treated for injuries to his little body.

He is inactive successful the infirmary arsenic of Monday morning.

The fishy was injured erstwhile officers returned occurrence and died astatine the hospital.

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