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Two weeks after the brutal murder in Goshen, the perpetrators of the murder of a teenage mother, her 10-month-old baby and four other members of her household remain at largefor which the authorities presented a reward offer of more than $20,000 for information leading to the arrest of those responsible.
So far, authorities do not know the reason for the attack in the central California farming community. Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux reaffirmed that the deaths of the six people were a “cartel-style execution.”
Police authorities provided progress in the investigation into the massacre that ended the lives of several members of a family, in Goshen. The suspects remain at large and believe they may be related to drug trafficking and gangs.
“We have identified two cartels operating from north to south in California; the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel (CJNG), and the Sinaloa cartelTulare County Sheriff’s Chief Mike Boudraux said.
Boudreaux noted that although officials are not sure if an organized crime group was behind the killings.
“Our investigators have been working around the clock, literally 24 hours a day on this case,” he said. “Arrests will be made in this investigation.”
Boudreaux also made a direct appeal to Governor Gavin Newsom, asking him to lift the ban on the death penalty andn cases where young children are killed. In 2019, the Governor announced a moratorium on the death penalty in California.
The violence in the community of some 3,000 residents in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley was the first of three mass murders in California this month.
It was followed by a January 21 massacre at a suburban Los Angeles dance hall that left 11 dead and nine injured.. Police say the gunman was later found dead in a pickup truck with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Less than 48 hours after that massacre, shootings at two Half Moon Bay farms on January 23 near San Francisco left seven dead and one wounded. That gunman was arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder.
Boudreaux said the 16-year-old mother who was killed in Goshen was fleeing violence in the pre-dawn hours when the killers caught up with her outside the home and shot the young mother and her son. The other four victims ranged in age from 19 to 72, including a grandmother who was shot while she was sleeping.
The victims have been identified as: Rosa Parraz, 72 years old; Eladio Parraz, Jr., 52; Jennifer Analla, 49; Marcos Parraz, 19; Alissa Parraz, 16; and Nycholas Parraz, 10 months.
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