Civilian witnesses<\/a>, including customers and barbers, describe a chaotic scene with gunshots, people panicking and lots of blood.<\/p>\nBarber Efren Romero expected to be busy that Saturday with people needing haircuts before Easter. He was booked but still tried to squeeze in clients he knew, including Freddie Medina.<\/p>\n
Unbeknownst to Medina, one of his gang rivals, Chantharangsy, was seated in the next booth, also getting his haircut.<\/p>\n
In an interview with detectives, Romero said he noticed Chantharangsy getting antsy and bobbing his head in a taunting manner.<\/p>\n
Romero told detectives he asked his client not to start anything, as the shop was full of customers.<\/p>\n
At about the same time, two of his client’s friends walked in and quickly said hello. They then turned to Chantharangsy, and Romero said they asked him, “What’s up, you bang?”<\/p>\n
“Then everything went from chill to boom,” Romero testified.<\/p>\n
Police believe Chantharangsy fired a weapon from underneath his barber’s cape, striking Medina and his friends, Christian Gutierrez and Emilio Rodriguez. All three survived.<\/p>\n
Why Chantharangsy shot Quintero is unclear. He wasn’t a gang member and didn’t know the defendant.<\/p>\n
Alexander Mendoza and his brother Gabriel were friends of Quintero’s and with him at the barbershop the day of the shooting.<\/p>\n
Alexander Mendoza was in the barber chair when the shooting started. Frightened, he ran toward the rear of the shop, then hid behind a chair before going outside.<\/p>\n
Not far from the entrance, he found his brother Gabriel with Quintero, who was on the ground and bleeding.<\/p>\n
“He was next to his car and my brother was holding him, trying to put pressure on him,” he said.<\/p>\n
When asked by the prosecutor if he saw who shot his friend, Alexander Mendoza said yes, stood up and pointed at the defendant.<\/p>\n
“Him,” he said.<\/p>\n
The preliminary hearing continues Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Family members of Jampier Quintero, the innocent bystander killed in a gang-related shooting, wept as they watched a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5526,16615,112,114,113,27691,57020,186076,186075,3790,1388],"class_list":["post-473024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-attempted-murder","tag-barbershop","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-gang-related","tag-innocent-bystander","tag-jampier-quintero","tag-kobe-chantharangsy","tag-preliminary-hearing","tag-surveillance-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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