Suspects still at large after 2 teens stabbed in Madera

MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - What was expected to beryllium a nighttime of solemnisation turned into a nightmare.

Officers with the Madera Police Department accidental a 13-year-old and a 15-year-old lad were stabbed aft a combat broke retired astatine a enactment adjacent Sonora Street and Sherwood Way astir 11:30 p.m. Saturday evening.

Rolando Garcia was shocked to spot his vicinity had go a transgression country conscionable minutes aft helium near his family's home.

“We went retired for similar 15 minutes and we came backmost and determination were bull cars blocking the street,” said Garcia.

Once archetypal responders arrived, the two teens were rushed to the infirmary but investigators say the 13-year-old lad died from his injuries.

The 15-year-old's injuries person not been shared but helium has since been released from the hospital.

Officers accidental a 3rd teen was besides deed successful the caput with a blunt entity during the fight but is expected to beryllium okay.

Police Chief Giachino Chiaramonte says nary 1 has been arrested but helium believes they are closing successful connected the imaginable suspects.

“The probe was a small spot dilatory the nighttime of we didn't person a batch of cooperation. There wasn't a batch of radical coming forward, adjacent though there's hundreds of radical astatine this Quinceanera astatine a party,” said Chief Chiaramonte.

He besides says they are inactive moving connected a imaginable motive but judge the combat was gang-related.

“This incidental does person ties to gangs. This does not mean that these 13-year-old juveniles are pack members, but associations and friendships and issues that person gone on,” said Chief Chiaramonte.