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Jacqueline Flores had only 25 years old, she was sitting in the seat of her parked car next to her six-year-old daughter, when someone shot her in the head. Three days after the event, the Hispanic woman died at the Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno, California.
The shocking murder of the Hispanic mother could have been a case of “mistaken identity,” established the police in a preliminary report.
The young woman was parked near Kearney Boulevard and Thorne Avenue, near the Fresno Chandler Executive Airport, on Tuesday at 10: 45 pm, when they shot at him. The bullets almost hit the little girl.
The wounds seriously injured Flores, who fought for her lived three days, but died last Friday.
“Fortunately, the girl did not She was injured, but a bullet entered through the back window where she was sitting ”, said the police, who went to the scene and gave first aid to the Hispanic woman.
The authorities immediately implemented an operation to arrest the shooter (s), but it was unsuccessful.
“Investigators believe she was not the target” , said the policeman. “This senseless act of violence may have been a case of identity confusion.”
This is a new crime in Fresno, a city with a murder rate of 4.2 for each 100, 000 inhabitants, four times the average of larger cities such as Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and San José.
Of According to Daily Mail , the only city in California with a worse rate of murders is Oakland, with 7. 38 For each 100, 000.
“I can tell you that when I left as police chief of this city, we had an average of seven shootings per week , ”said Fresno Mayor, Jerry Dyer , who was previously head of p He used the city during a 40 year career in the agency.
“Those numbers more than doubled and, in some cases, tripled” , added.
The family created a campaign in GoFundMe with the goal of raising $ 12, 000 for her funeral service.
“She did not he deserved this ”, it reads on the web. “If you know anything about what happened, contact the police to help you catch the person who did this.”
“To me, she was like an older sister. Every time I needed someone to talk to, she was always there ”, said to KSEE Flores’s cousin, Odalis Tepec.
“It’s hard to believe… I felt like it could have been a dream, as if we had to wake up. But it was not like that ”, he added.
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