Victim's family asks for plea deal in Clovis homicide case

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Just implicit a twelvemonth ago, Tavion Tapscott was successful Fresno County Court due to the fact that a home unit extortion bid was taken retired against him.

On Wednesday, helium was sentenced for sidesplitting the pistillate who took retired that order, Breaja Jones.

Jones was his erstwhile spouse and the parent of his child.

According to tribunal documents, successful October 2024, helium had gone to her location to prime up immoderate items, determination was an argument, and helium changeable her.

Action News spoke with Jones' parent wrong weeks of the shooting.

"She was specified a saccharine soul, and for idiosyncratic to instrumentality her beingness truthful prematurely, it's conscionable beyond heartbreaking," said Tracie Walker, Breaja's mother.

Tapscott was reasonably definite of his destiny erstwhile helium walked into tribunal due to the fact that determination was a plea deal.

Still, helium stood with his caput hanging, heavy hunched, and wiping distant tears.

The authoritative said it was Jones' parent who asked for the deal, she was hoping to springiness Tapscott the accidental to walk little clip successful jail.

The attorneys met and agreed he'd plead blameworthy to second-degree execution with a weapon enhancement, starring to a 25 years to beingness sentence.

The household asked not to beryllium recorded arsenic they spoke successful court, but they told Tapscott that they inactive emotion him, would beryllium praying for him, and anticipation that helium tin usage his clip successful situation to amended himself, and erstwhile helium gets retired helium tin beryllium reunited with his small girl.

Their statements brought the justice to tears, who said helium lone agreed to the plea due to the fact that it's what Jones' household wants.

"That is lone negotiated down done the wishes of the victim's family," said Hon. W. Kent Hamlin, Fresno County Superior Court. "That is surely if they tin get thing retired of this, it's that their wishes beryllium followed."

Jones' sisters said they haven't forgiven Tapscott yet, but they cognize they volition eventually.

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