Young father killed, at least 2 others injured after shooting outside Visalia bar

Flowers and a tiny vigil beryllium successful downtown Visalia successful grant of 22-year-old Angel Rudy Salazar, who was changeable and killed successful beforehand of a barroom implicit the weekend.

"My lad was a bully son, caring dad, loving father, brother, had an affectionate grin and everyone loved him. A batch of love, a batch of friends. A batch of large families are gonna miss him," expressed Nina Salazar, Rudy's mother.

It happened successful beforehand of Rookies Sports Bar and Grill successful downtown Visalia.

Nina says her lad was enjoying a nighttime retired with friends and would've ne'er expected this to happen.

She is asking witnesses to delight travel forward.

"I conscionable privation my lad was inactive present and finds justice. If anybody has immoderate information, delight interaction the detectives. It should not beryllium unseen that cipher deserves this for their child. They conscionable wanna person a bully clip retired present with friends and family," said Nina.

Angel leaves down 2 young sons and a girlfriend.

Nina says her grandchildren are keeping her going astatine this time.

"Angel was a bully kid who worked for the High Speed Rail and had a bully caput connected his shoulders," Nina said.

"Loved vintage cars, coating cars. Helping everybody."

Angel's household is devastated and says they volition support warring for justice.

"It's gonna beryllium hard. I'm gonna miss him each day. I conscionable privation to convey everybody for their thoughts and prayers successful this hard time. I person had excessively galore losses lately, and this is the hardest one."

The gunfire struck astatine slightest 2 others.

Action News besides spoke to the parent of 1 subsister connected Monday.

"No genitor should person to hide their children; I americium truthful grateful and blessed that I don't person to bash that and that I was capable to bring my lad home, and I deliberation that is what hard is, knowing that that could've been him," said Deidre Johnson.

She says she is counting her blessings aft her lad was deed by a slug this past play but not earnestly injured.

Deidre's lad walked close into the crossfire portion leaving the barroom astir 1:30 successful the morning.

He was changeable successful the limb and was capable to marque it backmost inside, wherever employees helped him portion taking screen down the bar.

"I conscionable perceive everything successful the background. He conscionable kept reassuring maine that helium was okay, but idiosyncratic other wasn't okay," Deidre recalled of the telephone telephone with her son.

Salazar was aboriginal identified arsenic the unfortunate of what appears to beryllium a random shooting.

"That is someone's kid that got lost, someone's friend, son, nephew. And it's perfectly not just due to the fact that of immoderate random enactment of violence," expressed Deidre.

"My prayers spell retired to the Salazar family. They are successful my thoughts and prayers."

Visalia Police accidental they are not acceptable to stock surveillance video from the area, but radical who person seen it say...

"It didn't look similar determination was immoderate enactment earlier it took place. You spot 4 guys locomotion up to wherever that man was. My bosom goes retired to the household connected their loss," explained Steve Nelson, the CEO of Downtown Visalians.

Steve says helium hopes the dozens of cameras they person astir downtown captured capable grounds to find those involved.

"It volition beryllium precise crucial. It's different acceptable of eyes on," said Steve.

"People request to deliberation astir what they bash earlier they bash it and the interaction it's going to person connected families," said Deidre.

She shares that her lad is simply a begetter arsenic good and is thankful to person him home.

Both Deidre and Downtown Visalians mentioned that their hearts, thoughts and prayers are with the household impacted by this tragedy.

Visalia constabulary accidental this is an progressive investigation, and officers are doing everything they tin to find the suspects and person them reply for their actions successful court.

Anyone with accusation is urged to travel forward. You tin scope the Visalia Police Department by (559) 734-8117 oregon by visiting here.