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LEMOORE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Residents successful a Lemoore vicinity reacted to a deadly shooting involving a constabulary officer.
It happened wrong an flat adjacent Janine Way and Blake Street.
Matthew Miller says helium lives close crossed the thoroughfare from wherever the shooting unfolded connected Tuesday.
"I've been present for a small implicit a year," helium said. "Just been a fewer months ago, determination was a shooting connected the different broadside of the analyzable wherever a feline got deed with a stray slug and yet died."
Lemoore Police accidental an serviceman arrived astatine the flat analyzable astatine astir 1 p.m. for a telephone astir an battle successful Reno, Nevada.
Investigators accidental police fired shots astatine the man who reported the transgression aft helium took retired a weapon and moved towards the responding officer.
The antheral who was changeable received aesculapian attraction but died astatine the scene.
Carolyn Moreno moved to the country from Fresno a twelvemonth ago.
"I emotion Lemoore. I mean, I'm a small weary now, and you don't deliberation thing similar this ever happens successful Lemoore. Lemoore is simply a nice, quiescent small town," she said.
Uneasiness present weighs connected her regular daily with her dog, Charlie.
"This is my home. I locomotion done present each day, 2 oregon 3 times a day. So, to cognize that that happened is precise scary," she explained. "I'll beryllium much cautious decidedly walking my canine done here. And I'll support my eyes unfastened for sure."
The Kings County Sheriff's Office has present taken implicit the investigation.
The Lemoore Police serviceman who fired his weapon has been placed connected paid administrative leave.
