Sheriff: Central California Man Fatally Shoots Grandmother, Father’s Girlfriend On Christmas

REEDLEY (AP) – A 23-year-old antheral is accused of fatally shooting his grandma and his father’s woman and firing shots astatine his begetter connected Christmas arsenic the household gathered to speech gifts successful California’s San Joaquin Valley.

Austin Alvarez was arrested Saturday connected suspicion of execution and attempted murder. He remains successful the Fresno County jailhouse connected $2.5 cardinal bail. It was not instantly wide whether helium had a lawyer who could talk connected his behalf.

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Detectives person not yet determined Alvarez’s motive. He arrived astatine a household member’s location successful Reedley, a metropolis astir 200 miles (322 kilometers) southbound of San Francisco successful Central California, and began firing a gun.

Alvarez changeable and killed his 58-year-old grandmother, Magdalena Alvarez, and his father’s girlfriend, 39-year-old Meisa Rashid, astir 1:45 p.m., the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said successful a quality release.

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Alvarez fled the location and fired shots astatine his father, who was successful a parked conveyance outside, but did not deed him, the sheriff’s bureau said.

Authorities recovered Alvarez astir 10 miles (16 kilometers) distant and took him into custody.

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