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FOWLER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A antheral changeable and killed his aged ma and his 3 dogs successful Fowler connected Wednesday night, making it the archetypal homicide successful Fowler successful 2025.
Neighbors are successful daze and told YourCentralValley.com that they’re not utilized to proceeding astir this benignant of violence.
“Stuff has happened here, and we've each travel together, but thing similar this. It is tragic beyond words,” Fowler nonmigratory Talene Kasparian-Cleveland said.
Around 6:30 p.m. connected Oct. 15, Fowler Police responded to the dire concern successful a quiescent neighborhood.
“A household subordinate who said they were connected the enactment with a man. He was threatening to sprout his aged mother, his dogs, arsenic good arsenic himself,” Fresno County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Tony Botti said.
But erstwhile officers arrived, it was excessively late.
“We utilized a drone to alert some astir the spot and really adjacent wrong the location to effort and spot if determination was immoderate question with anybody. We did not observe immoderate movement,” Botti said.
Everyone wrong was dead. The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office has identified the parent arsenic 78-year-old Cheryl Hanoian and the shooter arsenic her son, 60-year-old James McFarland. The sheriff's bureau besides confirmed helium changeable and killed his 3 dogs.
“Based connected the grounds and the accusation we had astatine that point, we were investigating this arsenic a execution suicide. We're trying to conscionable larn much astir James and Cheryl. There's thing glaring to america close present arsenic to what whitethorn person led to thing similar this,” Botti said.
The quality has near the Fowler assemblage rattled.
“I was location past nighttime and my telephone started ringing. I was getting substance messages. What's going on,” Kasparian-Cleveland said.
She besides added that she didn’t cognize the victims personally, but Fowler is simply a tiny and quiescent town.
“I unrecorded connected the implicit other extremity of town. And my windows were open, and I started proceeding the helicopters, and I heard sirens. And, you know, evidently I panic erstwhile I perceive that due to the fact that it again, it could beryllium anybody,” Kasparian-Cleveland said.
The Sheriff’s Office besides said Fowler doesn’t often woody with tragedy.
“The past clip they had thing important was successful 2020, it was June 13th. It conscionable truthful happens that it was a execution termination arsenic well,” Botti said.
