FRESNO, CA (KMJ) – Homicide investigators release the name of an 18-year-old man who they say shot a father in Central Fresno.
Police said the murder took place just before 3:00am on August 15, 2019.
30-year-old Ricky Brogdon was on the phone with 9-1-1.
He called them saying there was a person in his yard on the 3000 block of east Nevada, and he put the phone down to investigate.
He never returned to the call.
Police Chief Jerry Dyer said that’s when he was shot in the head.
“The sad part of this entire story is that Brogdon’s two children were home at the time,” said Chief Dyer in a press conference on Thursday at Police Headquarters.
Police said the murder suspect was 18-year-old Juan Daniel Grado, Brogdon’s former neighbor.
Just eight minutes after the shooting, Grado and 22-year-old Anthony Amezcua, both gang members, were stopped on the 180 by the CHP with the suspected murder weapon, a rifle, found inside the vehicle.
Both suspects were part of an on-going robbery series and charged for those offenses as well.
Police believe the motive was that Grado and Brogdon got into a fight over a woman both men knew.
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