(Video courtesy Carlos Calderon) Story: /siRHVP8IFG Wanted suspect Gustavo Garcia was killed. Video of car burning following deadly crash on Highway 65. #UPDATE: Suspect in this case has been identified as 36-year old Gustavo Garcia -> Homicide in Visalia leads to officer-involved shooting, chase and fatal crash ‘We have one man that essentially (has) been on a personal reign of terror,’ Boudreaux said at an afternoon news conference.Īn autopsy was scheduled to determine whether there were any drugs or alcohol in Garcia’s system. He was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene. Garcia was moving against traffic on the highway when he struck a vehicle near Linda Vista Avenue. The suspect fled down Highway 65 toward Porterville in the stolen vehicle at speeds in excess of 100 mph, colliding into several motorists as deputies and Visalia officers followed close behind. The suspect and deputy exchanged gunfire until the suspect ran into a nearby orchard and carjacked a vehicle. She fled with her children, who were home asleep at the time, and managed to escape harm.īut Garcia was soon on the run again. A Tulare County sheriff’s deputy eventually spotted the man’s vehicle and initiated a pursuit, following Garcia to the intersection of Avenue 256 and Road 148, just outside of Visalia. Shortly after, Garcia opened fire at his girlfriend’s north Visalia home. Garcia resurfaced at a Tulare hotel Sunday evening where he shot at a woman sitting in a parked car outside Motel 6. Hours later, Garcia killed a man at a Visalia gas station- identifiedas Rocky Jones, 51. Gustavo Garcia Sunday afternoon rampage: targeting random victimsīourdreaux said Garcia’s rampage started Sunday afternoon in Exeter, with the apparent random shooting off a farmworker, before robbing a gas station of $2K and firing rounds at employees and customers – where miraculously no one was hurt. He walked into store within moments of Garcia, believe he had been with him in a Honda Pilot. Tulare County Sheriff Mike Bourdreaux says a motive is unclear but may have involved an ended relationship.īREAKING Exeter PD now looking for this man who had been with Gustavo Garcia, man who carried out robbery, shootings. In attacks on apparently random strangers, Garcia shot and wounded a farmworker in an orchard and a woman at a motel, carjacked other farmworkers. He also robbed a convenience store, carjacked a truck, fired shots at his ex-girlfriend’s house, and finally injured four people in wrong-way car crashes on State Route 65 before he was flung from a stolen truck in Porterville and dying Monday morning. Gustavo Garcia: A California man previously deported in 2014 goes on a robbing, shooting and carjacking and deadly car chase rampage- killing one, injuring four others before dying.Ī man previously deported in 2014 has died after going on a rampage in Central Californiawhich saw him rob a gas station, fatally shoot a worker, carjack a vehicle before crashing during a high speed car chase after seeking to intentionally smash into other cars.Īuthorities say 36-year-old Gustavo Garcia of Visalia killed a man at a gas station and wounded several other people in apparently random shootings that started Sunday. Pictured, California man, Gustavo Garcia.
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