Family seeks justice for beloved Clovis educator after violent attack

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Valley household is seeking justness aft their lad was brutally assaulted successful a transgression they're describing arsenic "senseless."

Police are looking for whoever is liable for assaulting 37-year-old Geoff Bernardi adjacent the Dry Creek canal slope down the Pacific Grove apartments successful Clovis astir 1 a.m. Thursday.

Geoff's parent is sharing the chilling details surrounding his assault.

"I was successful furniture connected Wednesday night, and astatine 12:57 telephone rang, and it was Jeff's girlfriend. They had been talking and helium went extracurricular to fume and helium can't fume extracurricular of the flat conflict, truthful helium walked to the canal bank," Geoff's parent Erin Adams said. "Somebody asked him if helium would springiness him a cigarette, and helium said, 'Sure, buddy.' And they deed him implicit the head, helium went to the ground, helium yelled to his girlfriend, 'run!' And past the idiosyncratic continued to bushed him until helium was unrecognizable."

Bernardi is simply a vocation method acquisition teacher and works intimately with theatre students surrounding precocious schoolhouse productions successful Clovis Unified.

Adams says helium was taken disconnected life-support and they're present preparing his organs for donation.

Detectives are moving to find what limb was utilized successful the battle and a imaginable motive.

Clovis constabulary are relying connected adjacent surveillance footage for immoderate clues.

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