Triple murder trial continues with new evidence, photos of first crime scene

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Photos of a reddish car and different grounds took halfway signifier astatine the Fresno County Courthouse connected Tuesday arsenic transgression country investigators revealed caller details successful the Andrew Hammond triple execution trial.

"Those are marking slug holes, 1 astatine each missive card," Fresno Police Department Crime Scene Technician Virginia Cavazos said.

"We usage achromatic dusting powerfulness to effort and find immoderate fingerprints."

Prosecutors accidental grounds from the car incriminates Hammond.

He present faces 3 execution charges for the deaths of Fernando Gonzales, Steven Rice, and Brandon Munoz.

The men each died successful abstracted shootings betwixt 2020 and 2022.

Prosecutors accidental Hammond was down them all.

The 28-year-old appeared calm and adjacent affable successful court, but the lawman territory lawyer says Hammond has a atrocious temper.

"When the defendant, Andrew Hammond, feels that he's been disrespected," Deputy District Attorney Kelly Smith said Monday, (it) results successful the decease of not one, not two, but 3 abstracted individuals."

Hammond, who thumbed done the penal codification successful tribunal connected Tuesday, faces up to beingness successful prison.

Prosecutors are walking the assemblage done the facts and grounds from each shooting separately.

On the stand, Fresno Police Department Detective Ryan Rockwell testified astir the archetypal scene, wherever Hammond attended a aftermath connected East Washington Avenue.

It turned deadly aft a drunken argument.

"I was capable to bash a 2nd walk-through erstwhile the prima came up," Rockwell said astir his investigation.

"You tin spot each the fig stands ... There's besides reddish boxes and rubber gloves," helium said astir photos of the scene.

It could beryllium weeks until the defence lawyer begins his arguments, but lawyer Richard Beshwate did admit to the assemblage Monday that Andrew Hammond pulled the trigger successful each 3 cases.

Beshwate says Hammond was ever acting successful self-defense.

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