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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The Yang household hasn't near their beforehand lawn, steps distant from wherever their daughters took their past breaths, since Wednesday night. A high-speed pursuit ended wrong 18-year-old Eliza Yang and 25-year-old Mang Yang's bedroom, sidesplitting some of them.
"Dad and ma are waiting for their daughters to travel back, and that's not going to happen," says neighbour Tanya Loveless.
A known pack member, 18-year-old Adam Canales, is facing 4 felony charges, including 2 counts of murder.
He is besides facing felony charges for evading an officer, causing death, and leaving the country of an accident. He remains successful jailhouse with a bail acceptable astatine implicit $300,000.
"I ran implicit there. I'm like, what's going on? What's going on? And I spot the dada coming retired from the chamber screaming," says neighbour Silvia Blanco.
Days aft the deadly crash, the sisters' dada is inactive wearing the aforesaid apparel from that night.
"He fell down to the floor, and helium was rolling connected the dirt. He was crying," says Blanco.
Action News is present learning that Canales ran down the thoroughfare and went wrong a neighbor's garage.
"He was each bloody connected the broadside of his face. He tells her, 'Help me, assistance me,' and she says, 'You conscionable caused that accident,' and helium conscionable kept running," says Blanco.
This is not his archetypal run-in with the law.
"He's connected juvenile probation; helium has aggregate priors for carrying firearms," says Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni.
Sheriff Zanoni says due to the fact that astir of Canales' past transgression past was erstwhile helium was underage, it volition play a little important relation successful court.
But the Sheriff says connected Friday, a bully Samaritan discovered a firearm on the pursuit route. Detectives are present moving tests to spot if it belongs to him. If so, it would beryllium an added complaint to his already laundry database of charges.
"We person a beardown content that this is simply a weapon Adam Canales tossed erstwhile helium was being pursued by our deputies," says Sheriff Zanoni.
Neighbors, work providers, and Sheriff's deputies stopped by Friday to connection condolences to the Yang family. A young miss was fixed a teddy carnivore but chose to enactment it by the memorial.
After the crash, the household was stranded for hours but yet got a edifice with their insurance.
Many were frustrated with the timeliness and deficiency of assistance provided to the household by officials, particularly considering the calamity started with a instrumentality enforcement chase.
Ultimately, neighbors had to telephone the Red Cross to assistance the household and get the process started of getting them assistance.
"They request help, they request food, clothing. They request blankets due to the fact that determination is cipher retired determination to assistance them," says Blanco.
The sisters were 2 of six children successful total, and the youngest was lone 9 years old. Neighbors accidental the household had conscionable moved successful a fewer months ago.
"This location was similar a slum location for years and years and years. Just a fewer months ago, they remodeled it. It was beautiful, and past this calamity happened," says Tanya Loveless.
The assemblage has rallied astir the family, already raising much than $35,000. Some, similar Loveless, are opening their ain homes to the family.
"This assemblage is praying for them. This assemblage is present for them, and immoderate they need, immoderate we got to do, we are going to bash it," says Loveless.
The household has acceptable up a GoFundMe for ceremonial expenses arsenic good arsenic to assistance repair the home.
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