Shannon Rutherford, a 48-year-old White man, was fatally shot in southeast Fresno after a violent encounter near Chance Avenue and Woodward Avenue. The shooting happened on a Wednesday night; nearby residents heard gunfire and a neighbor, Benjamin Garcia, saw Rutherford running along the sidewalk toward an apartment complex before collapsing near a telephone pole. Rutherford was conscious long enough to tell Garcia he could not breathe and that he had a wound near the left side of his chest. He was transported for emergency care but died about two hours after the shooting.

Police obtained a search warrant for a residence across the street and questioned several people, including a woman with whom Rutherford sometimes stayed, though she was not publicly identified as a suspect. Investigators said they did not believe the killing was gang-related, had not recovered the firearm, and had made no arrests. Motive and the full sequence of events leading to the shooting remained undetermined.

Did anyone in the Fresno area see or hear anything that night, or know Rutherford’s associates who might help investigators?