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HANFORD, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 14-year-old and a 17-year-old person been arrested aft shooting a location successful Hanford connected Sept. 28, the Hanford Police Department said.
Officers accidental they were dispatched connected Sept. 28 to the 1400 artifact of Echo Lane successful Hanford regarding a location that had conscionable been changeable at, but cipher was struck.
Upon arrival, constabulary accidental they learned the suspects had fled the country connected foot. Once they learned the suspects' descriptions, they began to cheque the country and located them a fewer blocks away.
The 2 suspects, who the Police Department identified arsenic 17-year-old and 14-year-old males, fled connected ft from the officers and into the backyard of a home. The officers past established a perimeter astir the country and called for further resources, including a K-9 from the Lemoore Police Department and a fixed-wing craft from the Fresno country bureau of the California Highway Patrol.
Investigators accidental they located a handgun successful the absorption the suspects had fled connected foot. After aggregate announcements, the suspects surrendered to officers and were arrested without incident.
Police accidental they besides recovered an further handgun and covering matching the statement of the shooters. Both handguns were loaded and were unserialized privately-made firearms. One of the teenagers appeared to person received a ricochet coiled to his face, the effect of firing rounds astatine the occupied home.
According to detectives, some teenagers were transported to the Kings County Juvenile Center, wherever they were booked nether suspicion of shooting astatine an inhabited dwelling, possession of a handgun by a minor, possession of unrecorded ammunition by a minor, and resisting/obstructing an officer.
