SHOOTERS IN CENTRAL CALIF. KILLINGS STILL AT LARGE
Two weeks after shooters brazenly killed a teen mother, her 10-month-old baby and four other members of her household, the suspects remain at large. Authorities on Monday provided no motive for the attack in a Central California farming community.
Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux has yet to describe the shooters publicly or provide any information about what he previously called the “assassination-style” killings, other than to say investigators believe they are gang-related.
Boudreaux did not take questions during a news conference Monday, his first public remarks since the day after the Jan. 16 in Goshen. He also did not address whether anyone at the house was targeted.
The violence was the first of three mass killings in California this month.
It was followed by a Jan. 21 massacre at a dance hall in Monterey Park that left 11 dead and nine wounded. Police say that gunman was found dead in a van with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Less than 48 hours after that massacre, shootings at two
Half Moon Bay farms on Jan. 23 left seven dead and one wounded. That gunman has been taken into custody and charged with murder and attempted murder.
Authorities have said they were searching for two suspects in the Goshen killings. On Monday, they increased a reward offer to more than $20,000 for information leading to their arrests. The previous amount had been $15,000.
Boudreaux said the 16year-old mom who was killed in Goshen was fleeing the violence in the pre-dawn hours when the killers caught up to her outside the home and shot the young mother and her son. The other four victims ranged from 19 to 72 years old.
The victims have been identified as Rosa Parraz, 72; Eladio Parraz Jr., 52; Jennifer Analla, 49; Marcos Parraz, 19; Alissa Parraz, 16; and Nycholas Parraz, 10 months.
The sheriff on Monday said the teen mother had just been awarded full custody of her son after he spent months in the foster care system. The two were reunited Jan. 13 — three days before they were both killed.