Officers rushing to fatal shooting scene crash into a car at Blackstone intersection
Two Fresno Police officers rushing to the scene of what turned out to be a fatal shooting crashed into a car Sunday evening at a major city intersection.
The shooting happened at 7 p.m. near the intersection of North Glenn Avenue and East Lansing Way where a man in his 30s was found on the roadway with a gunshot wound to the upper body.
He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead, police Lt. Robert Dewey said.
Two officers rushing to the shooting scene crashed with a car at Blackstone and Dakota avenues about a block away. The two officers in the police vehicle were not injured, but two people in the other car were taken to the hospital for a complain of pain, Dewey said.
Both the shooting and the crash under investigation. Dewey said the motive for the shooting was not immediately clear.
This story will be updated.
This story was originally published May 28, 2023 at 9:48 PM.
