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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- There was pugnacious emotion successful tribunal Wednesday arsenic the aunt of an accused slayer showed up to spot her nephew, Kobe Chantharangsy.
"You cannot assistance a idiosyncratic if they don't privation your help, and I deliberation the way that helium took is that way," Chantharangsy's aunt said. "He's conscionable going to person to wage the consequences for what helium did, and I told him so."
Chantharangsy pleaded not guilty, 11 days aft constabulary accidental his haircut successful Central Fresno turned deadly.
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Investigators judge helium fired shots from the barbershop chair.
The cape covered his gun.
"He was wearing his drape, and a mates of rival pack members came in," Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto said. "They started challenging each different verbally erstwhile Chantharangsy produced a handgun from underneath his haircut drape."
44-year-old Jampier Quintero was caught successful the rivalry.
He was an guiltless bystander astatine the barbershop with his young sons for an Easter trim. Quintero's woman says helium shielded the children from the bullets.
"Until his past moment, helium was the protector," Gabriela Lopez said. "He would ever say, 'If I had to springiness my beingness for my family, I would.' That's precisely what helium did. He died protecting his kids."
Quintero's household immigrated to the U.S. from Venezuela a fewer years ago. They wanted a amended beingness for their kids.
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"I'm bittersweet for the victim's family," Chantharangsy's aunt said. "Two kids person to turn up without their dad."
The shooting besides injured 2 others, who constabulary accidental were the intended targets: a 20-year-old and a 17-year-old. Their injuries are present reflected arsenic attempted execution charges.
The incidental besides landed Adrian Echeverria successful tribunal arsenic an accessory for allegedly driving the getaway car. He pleaded not guilty.
"He's not trying to tally oregon fell away," Echeverria's defence lawyer said.
The 2 suspects are owed backmost successful tribunal adjacent week arsenic the lawsuit against them continues.
The victim's household has set up a GoFundMe and says, "Anything helps."
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