Police and firefighter/paramedics from Fresno, California responded about 7:00 p.m. Sunday November 17, 2019 to a report of a mass shooting in a backyard in the block of 5300 East Lamona Avenue.
Upon arrival in the neighborhood of single-family residences on small lots, police officers found several individuals deceased in the backyard.
UPDATE: 4 killed, 10 wounded when about 30-35 people were at a football watch party on TV.
The information in this article is an early report published before any summary information was confirmed or released by police or fire authorities.
Fresno, California (pop. 494,665) is located in the center of the San Joaquin Valley, the southern portion of California’s Central Valley — about 150 miles southeast of San Francisco.
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"Mass casualty shooting" in Fresno, California leaves several dead https://t.co/D6wA4cdDiS pic.twitter.com/PFWm6RLhr7
— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 18, 2019
Breaking: ATF San Francisco Field Division special agents are responding to shooting in Fresno, CA. pic.twitter.com/WO6PLfGR9D
— ATF San Francisco (@ATFSanFrancisco) November 18, 2019
Breaking News: Police on scene of mass shooting in southeast Fresno https://t.co/cQuTVyqpcV
— Fresno Bee (@FresnoBee) November 18, 2019
UPDATE: 4 people killed and 6 more injured at a house on Lamona. All of the victims are Asian men between 25 and 35 years old.
A family was having a football party of about 3 dozen people, when someone came up on foot and started shooting at people in the back yard around 8PM pic.twitter.com/rVIw8uWXLK
— Marie Edinger KMPH (@MarieEdinger) November 18, 2019
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BREAKING UPDATE: "Several" people are dead and multiple others injured after a mass casualty shooting at a Fresno home, according to police.https://t.co/QnZERP9Nkl
— FOX26 News (@KMPHFOX26) November 18, 2019
MASS CASUALTY UPDATE: Officers are going door-to-door looking for surveillance cameras and witnesses who might be able to provide information that could help them make an arrest pic.twitter.com/9jDbYhvT2L
— Marie Edinger KMPH (@MarieEdinger) November 18, 2019
BREAKING UPDATE: The Fresno Police Department says at least 9 people have been shot and multiple people killed at a home near Peach and Olive.
FPD says family and friends were watching a football game in their back yard when random people came up and started shooting pic.twitter.com/iSN0DbIxlV
— Marie Edinger KMPH (@MarieEdinger) November 18, 2019
Police and paramedics have flooded into a neighborhood near Peach and Olive. At least half a dozen stretchers were brought out by houses at the intersection of Caesar and Lamona. Working to get more info from police and from people living nearby pic.twitter.com/doEIaKGHZ6
— Marie Edinger KMPH (@MarieEdinger) November 18, 2019