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Police accidental her 2-year-old kid got ahold of an unsecured weapon wrong the apartment.
Monday, December 9, 2024 9:34PM
FULL NEWS CONFERENCE: Police accidental a woman's 2-year-old kid accidentally changeable and killed her astatine a northeast Fresno flat analyzable this past Friday.
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Police present accidental a pistillate was killed by her 2-year-old kid during an accidental shooting successful northeast Fresno past week.
The Fresno Police Department has identified the unfortunate arsenic 22-year-old Jessinya Mina.
The shooting happened Friday nighttime connected Fresno Street and San Jose Avenue astatine the Butterfly Grove Apartment complex.
Police accidental Mina's toddler got ahold of an unsecured weapon wrong the apartment.
PREVIOUS COVEARGE: Woman dies successful accidental shooting astatine Fresno flat complex, constabulary say
The kid pulled the trigger, striking Mina erstwhile successful her precocious body. Investigators accidental the young pistillate was lying successful furniture erstwhile she was shot.
When officers arrived astatine the flat complex, Mina's 18-year-old boyfriend, Andrew Sanchez, was starting to instrumentality her to the hospital.
First responders past stepped successful and took Mina to the hospital, wherever she aboriginal died.
In a connection to Action News, Mina's sister says Sanchez neglected Mina's requests to not support a weapon successful the house.
Full Statement:
"My sister was a young parent of 2 beauteous children who should've been fixed the accidental to walk a agelong blessed beingness with them. She was 22yrs old, she was successful the process of going backmost to cosmetology schoolhouse and finishing her career. She was loving, caring, and ever gave selflessly distant whenever she had the opportunity. She was a Mother, a Sister, a Tia, a godmother, a Best person who was ever determination for everyone. She was a beauteous psyche who touched the lives of anyone she ever encountered. She was beauteous and comic and could enactment a grin connected anyone's face, anyone who knew her was genuinely blessed by her presence."
The connection continues, "Now due to the fact that of her boyfriends carelessness, his arrogance, his irresponsibly, and neglecting the requests of my sisters wishes of ne'er having a weapon successful her house... She's gone forever. My niece and nephew volition person to unrecorded disconnected of memories and stories of my sister alternatively than her presence. We volition ne'er beryllium capable to witnesser my sister transportation retired her lifelong goals and accomplishments owed to his negligence. My sister didn't merit this."
Sanchez was instantly detained. Police accidental helium told detectives helium was liable for leaving the weapon out. Police accidental helium has nary transgression history.
Sanchez was booked into the Fresno County jailhouse that nighttime connected weapon and kid endangerment charges but has since been released connected bail.
The District Attorney's Office volition reappraisal reports and marque the determination astir what charges whitethorn beryllium filed.
A GoFundMe has been acceptable up to assistance with Mina's ceremonial arrangements arsenic good arsenic her 2 children she leaves behind.
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