Police release report on Labor Day shooting

A Clovis Police Department report gives a look inside a drive-by shooting incident that took place Labor Day evening on the city’s west side.

The shooting happened around 8:35 p.m. Monday in the 900 block of Mora Street and shortly several Clovis police officers were on the scene.

Officer Jesus Sarabia walked up to a group of people standing near a red pickup truck.

Sarabia asked if everyone was okay and he was told they were, according to his report.

Sarabia said the victim in the incident, a juvenile, was visibly shaken up by the shooting.

The victim said he had dropped his long-time girlfriend off at her house then, while heading home to Mora St., noticed he was being followed after he turned from Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. on to Cesar Chavez Drive.

“As he pulled up to his residence the driver from the other vehicle began firing at him,” according to Sarabia’s report.

The victim ran into his home and his family called 911.

The victim said neither he nor his girlfriend had problems with anyone.

Sarabia examined the victim’s pickup, a red Dodge Ram crew cab and saw four bullet holes on the passenger side.

Sarabia spoke with neighbors to the south of the shooting location. They told Sarabia they had just gotten in from the grocery store when they heard the shots.

“They told me they are used to hearing gunshots, they didn’t pay no mind,” Sarabia wrote in his report.

The man Sarabia spoke with said he did see a green GMC Yukon speeding south away from the scene.

The incident remains under investigation.