Victims' family responds after SUV crashes through home

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Two women are dormant successful Fresno aft an SUV crashed into their location Wednesday night. 

The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office says they were chasing 18-year-old Adam Canales in Central Fresno erstwhile helium mislaid power and drove into the sisters' bedroom. 

“This calamity was a effect of the actions and the choices that Adam Canales made,” Fresno County Sheriff John Zanoni said. 

They accidental deputies responded to an statement betwixt 2 gangs astatine 9:47 p.m. Wednesday. 

When they arrived, they accidental Canales got successful a achromatic SUV and fled. 

Officers had lone chased him down Nevada Avenue for 27 seconds erstwhile helium crossed Cedar Avenue, barreling done the victims’ home. 

The sheriff’s bureau says helium killed 18-year-old Eliza Yang and 26-year-old Mang Yang. 

They accidental helium ran distant from the scene, but was caught and charged with 2 counts of vehicular manslaughter, 2 deed and tally counts, driving nether the power and driving without insurance. 

“The information that, you know, helium crashed into this location and past helium runs from the country to effort to get distant really, I think, speaks to Mr. Canales and what benignant of idiosyncratic helium is,” Zanoni said. 

The location is wrecked, and galore household members consciousness wrecked arsenic well. 

“I person ne'er seen this happening hap successful my life. This is my archetypal clip to spot this,” Mang and Eliza’s uncle Ronald Yang said. 

Canales was arrested unharmed, but Mang and Eliza volition lone unrecorded connected successful memory. 

Nine radical shared the home, and present those who survived are trying to fig retired wherever to go. 

“Right now, the location is not livable due to the fact that everything is turned disconnected and everything locked up, truthful we are inactive waiting for immoderate help,” Yang said. 

Some assistance was connected the way, though. 

Neighbors stepped up to comfortableness the household and assistance them find adjacent steps. 

They besides established a GoFundMe page on the family’s behalf. 

“This happening made everybody brokenhearted. And we're going to miss our nieces forever. Never forgetting this happening happened,” Yang said.