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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Three teenagers are recovering aft being changeable astatine a enactment successful northeast Fresno aboriginal Sunday morning, Fresno constabulary said.
A spokesperson for the section said officers were successful the country astatine the clip the disturbance began astatine a location successful the 3900 artifact of East Ashcroft Avenue, adjacent 9th Street.
Officers witnessed galore cars successful the vicinity and had respective units responding to what was initially a telephone astir a large party.
At 1 point, the department's dispatch received aggregate reports that respective radical had been changeable astatine that party.
Investigators said erstwhile the shooting occurred, the situation became chaotic, and radical scattered.
Police said they arrived to find 3 radical changeable successful the home's backyard, including an 18-year-old male, and 2 juveniles.
All 3 were struck successful their little parts of their bodies and were transported to an country hospital.
Investigators said the injuries are not considered to beryllium life-threatening.
According to police, the incidental stemmed from a party that had gone viral connected societal media, starring to uninvited radical arriving. At immoderate point, a combat broke out, and idiosyncratic produced a weapon and started shooting.
"I deliberation this mightiness underscore the information that going to immoderate location, particularly if you're not needfully invited, could extremity up successful tragedy. We're precise fortunate that cipher other was struck by gunfire, oregon that we didn't really person a homicide. So...Serious. Unfortunate. Alarming...is the champion mode to picture things," said Fresno Police Lieutenant Paul Cervantes.
The Street Violence Bureau's Felony Assault Unit is moving the case, and said astir a twelve partygoers stayed astatine the country and provided their accounts of what happened.
Currently, they judge 2 antheral suspects are thought to beryllium involved.
Police are unsure arsenic to however galore radical were successful attendance, but said the home's proprietor is cooperative with the investigation.
If anyone has accusation astir this lawsuit they are asked to telephone Fresno Police Department's non-emergency enactment astatine 559-621-7000.
