Suspect in Fresno homicide arrested after standoff. Police say charges include murder
Officers have arrested a 22-year-old man they said gunned down another man last month, police said Tuesday.
Anthony Munoz surrendered to police Monday after a short standoff at an apartment building near Floradora Avenue and Ninth Street, police said.
Munoz is suspected of killing 30-year-old Corey Childress in a car-to-car shooting on March 20 near Saginaw Way and Millbrook Avenue, according to police.
Childress was struck multiple times then crashed into the garage of a nearby home; he was unresponsive when officers arrived. Childress was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, where he died.
Police on Monday used a video call to allow a negotiator to talk Munoz into giving himself up after about 30 minutes, Lt. Paul Cervantes said Tuesday.
The men did not know each other, Cervantes said, but the violence was also not random, stemming potentially from road rage or some other incident before the shooting.
“I don’t think this is a genuine random act of violence, but there was some interaction between these individuals prior to the actual shooting,” Cervantes said.
The shooting was caught by surveillance cameras in the area, he added.
Homes in the area of the shooting were also struck by gunfire, police have said.
Munoz is a member of the Weller Street criminal street gang, according to police. He was booked into the Fresno County Jail on suspicion of murder, two counts of shooting into an inhabited dwelling and illegal possession of a firearm, police said.
He’s temporarily held without bail, according to jail records.
Police found a 9mm semi-automatic firearm, which is unrelated to the homicide, in Munoz’s apartment, police said. That gun was seized.
This story was originally published April 19, 2022 at 12:13 PM.
