Nicholas Bolanos, 33, was shot on the evening of June 12, 2025, after a six-round ShotSpotter alert brought officers to Griffith Way and Hughes/Blackstone in central Fresno. Responding officers found him hunched over and bleeding from the chest; he was taken to Community Regional Medical Center and later pronounced dead. Homicide detectives canvassed the scene and interviewed witnesses, identifying 41-year-old Scott Alvarado as the suspected shooter.

Investigators say Bolanos and Alvarado knew each other and had been staying at the same residence; a verbal dispute reportedly escalated into gunfire. The following day, June 13, plainclothes detectives located and arrested Alvarado in the North Fork area of Madera County without incident. Bolanos’s mother later said her son had been trying to help the man accused of killing him and that she witnessed the shooting inside their central Fresno home.

Does anyone in the Griffith Way area have information about Bolanos, Alvarado, or what led to that dispute?