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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A antheral is dormant aft shots rang retired close extracurricular of a banquet hallway successful northwest Fresno Tuesday evening.
The shooting happened astir 8 p.m. successful the parking batch of an lawsuit halfway adjacent West and Ashlan avenues.
Just steps distant from the shooting, determination was a enactment with astir 100 radical wrong of the lawsuit center.
Police person identified the fishy arsenic 28-year-old Lovepreet Singh.
"The feline was enjoying his clip wrong similar 5 minutes agone and past went extracurricular aft 5 minutes helium got shot, helium was nary more. It's scary," said Micky Singh.
The gunfire sent shockwaves done a ample enactment going connected conscionable steps distant wrong the hall.
"Everybody is frightened they were crying," says Micky, an who was moving successful the room astatine the clip of the shooting.
When officers arrived connected scene, they recovered 29-year-old Harmanpreet Singh suffering a gunshot coiled to the precocious body.
He was rushed to the infirmary but died from his injuries.
"We came implicit present and we saw the dormant assemblage close here. Everybody was shocked," recalled Miky.
Action News has present learned that some the shooter and the unfortunate knew each other, some from Modesto attending the party.
Witnesses archer Action News the 2 were friends.
"His telephone was ringing due to the fact that his woman was calling him from wrong and cipher wants to prime the telephone due to the fact that they cognize his woman is calling and they don't privation to archer her. It's a hard happening to archer her that her hubby is nary more," says Singh.
The suspect, 28-hear aged Lovepreet Singh fired astatine different unfortunate but missed. He ran distant into the adjacent Herndon Canal earlier calling 9-1-1 and turning himself in.
Police accidental erstwhile they arrested him, helium was successful possession of a semi-automatic firearm.
"It's beauteous scary erstwhile you spot these things play retired successful nationalist spot were communal folks spell with their families to conscionable person a bully time," says Sgt. Felipe Uribe, Fresno Police Department.
Inside the banquet hallway the adjacent time was a chaotic country near behind, scattered chairs, nutrient inactive connected the table, dispersed decor. Chaos and panic brought the amusive festivities wrong to a screeching halt.
Witnesses archer Action News the afloat enactment got up from their seats and ran wrong the room to question shelter.
Police accidental this was an isolated incident, but the motive is inactive unknown.
"It's hard to excavation and deliberation what radical spell done successful their minds successful these situations. It's hard to cognize what was said, and what triggered the effect we won't cognize astatine slightest not for a while," says Sgt. Uribe.
Lovepreet Singh was booked into the Fresno County Jail facing execution and attempted execution charges.
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