'He had so much blood': Witness describes finding 13-year-old stabbing victim in Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 13-year-old lad is warring for his beingness aft being stabbed aboriginal Thursday greeting successful a southeast Fresno neighborhood.

Officers arrived astatine the scene, adjacent the intersection of Lewis Street and Clark Avenue, to find the young teen suffering from a stab coiled to the precocious body. He was past reported to beryllium successful captious but unchangeable information pursuing exigency surgery.

Imelda Cruz, who lives nearby, was returning from the gym erstwhile she spotted the lad moving down the street.

“I drove up beside him,” Cruz said. “I noticed thing unusual astir him and asked, ‘Do you request help?’ The mediocre kid looked astatine maine and said, ‘Yes, I bash request help, look.’”

She says helium raised his limb to amusement her the wound, and she called 911.

“He had truthful overmuch blood. His apparel were covered successful it. I’ve ne'er seen the kid successful our vicinity before. He was airy and exhausted and told maine helium had conscionable been stabbed.”

Cruz said the boy’s limb was already successful a formed from a erstwhile injury, which made the onslaught adjacent much disturbing.

“How is it imaginable that a kid similar that would beryllium stabbed—and astatine that clip successful the morning? I conscionable don’t understand,” she said. “We request to instrumentality attraction of our children, present much than ever. I commune to God that the kid is okay. I privation each the champion for his family.”

Sgt. Larry Bowlan with the Fresno Police Department says detectives judge the stabbing whitethorn person stemmed from a disturbance successful an alley conscionable northbound of the location.

“It does dependable similar helium was progressive successful immoderate benignant of disturbance with astatine slightest 1 different subject,” Bowlan said. “One idiosyncratic was recovered adjacent and detained for questioning.”

However, investigators accidental the idiosyncratic detained has not been confirmed arsenic a suspect.

“They were simply successful the country erstwhile officers arrived and caught their attention,” Bowlan added. “We did not person a batch to spell connected successful presumption of a fishy description, and the unfortunate wasn’t capable to supply overmuch information.”

Detectives proceed moving to find what led to the onslaught and whether the idiosyncratic detained was involved.