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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Marjaree Mason Center hopes to unfastened a new, larger halfway successful Northwest Fresno by the extremity of the year, but it inactive needs assistance backing the project.
Recent incidents involving home unit are the latest examples of the request to expand.
Early Tuesday morning, a pistillate was stabbed aggregate times successful her precocious assemblage successful Central Fresno.
Police accidental she went knocking connected doors adjacent Palm and Thomas Avenues, searching for help. Someone called 911, and she was rushed to the hospital, wherever she is expected to survive.
Hours later, adjacent Effie and Grant, a 19-year-old antheral was recovered with stab wounds to his precocious body. He's besides expected to survive.
"It was an unnecessary crime. It could person been prevented. We impulse anyone with accusation to delight interaction the Fresno Police Department truthful we tin get this solved," said Officer Christopher Clark from the Fresno Police Department.
Officers accidental they're moving to way down the pistillate fishy progressive successful the home dispute.
Meanwhile, successful Alpaugh, Robert Long was arrested for shooting and killing his woman Melissa connected Monday.
The Tulare County Sheriff's Office says deputies had been called to their location astatine slightest 10 times. The victim's household says determination was a past of abuse.
"I privation this to marque a constituent for different women that determination is simply a mode out. There is simply a mode out. You conscionable got to look, and you got to accidental something," said Chris, Melissa's father.
In Fresno County, the Marjaree Mason Center is disposable astir the timepiece to assistance survivors navigate leaving an abusive relationship.
It volition unfastened a caller halfway by the extremity of the twelvemonth to assistance adjacent much victims, but it needs the community's assistance to support the task connected track.
"The efforts to fundraise for that gathering are not over. It's astir a $21 cardinal project, and close now, we're conscionable implicit $15 million, truthful we person $6 cardinal near to go," said Ashlee Wolf of the Marjaree Mason Center.
The abstraction astatine the caller assemblage halfway volition let unit to assistance much radical capable retired restraining orders, hunt for jobs and housing, and entree the invaluable resources needed to successfully permission an abusive situation.
The halfway says it can't travel soon enough.
"Our 24/7 situation drop-in halfway and the abstraction we person disposable for radical sessions oregon classes unluckily tin nary longer conscionable the request this assemblage requires," said Wolf.
You tin lend to the Marjaree Mason Center done its website.
If you are the unfortunate of home abuse, oregon you cognize idiosyncratic who is, determination is assistance disposable 24/7. In Fresno County, telephone the Marjaree Mason Center astatine (559) 233-4357. In each different locations, telephone the National Domestic Violence Hotline astatine (800) 799-7233.
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