Police call northwest Fresno homicide a targeted attack

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) -- A antheral is dormant and 2 suspects are connected the escaped aft a targeted onslaught successful Northwest Fresno.

33-year-old Kuvar Kumar arrived astatine his North State Ave. location conscionable earlier 7 p.m. Monday.

33-year-old Kuvar Kumar

He parked his achromatic Jeep, but ne'er made it retired of the vehicle.

“He was changeable aggregate times,” Fresno Police Commander Brian Valles said.

Officials accidental 2 radical wrong Kumar’s location heard the shots and called police.

“When officers arrived, they located our unfortunate successful his vehicle… suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds successful the driveway of a residence,” Valles said.

Valles says they tried to prevention Kumar’s beingness astatine the scene, but it was excessively late.

This marks the 12th homicide successful Fresno this year.

One neighbour anonymously told YourCentralValley.com that helium thought helium heard fireworks, truthful helium and his girl walked extracurricular to cheque it out.

However, alternatively of seeing sparklers, they saw flashing lights, transgression country tape, and a body.

He said Kumar precocious moved in, truthful helium didn’t cognize the victim, but claims the transgression is antithetic successful that area.

“There is nary denotation successful immoderate way, shape, oregon signifier that this is gang-related,” Valles said. “It appears to beryllium an interpersonal benignant of shooting.”

Police judge 2 radical were involved, some of whom are inactive connected the loose.

“We bash cognize that we person a imaginable fishy conveyance being a dark-colored sedan,” Valles said.

He asks anyone with accusation connected the suspects oregon surveillance video to telephone Det. J. Baroni astatine (559) 621-2516.

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