An 18-year-old identified as Karim Williams was shot and killed late on November 15, 2025, on the edge of an apartment complex in West Central Fresno near McKinley and Marks avenues. Police were initially dispatched on a report that sounded like a traffic emergency — a possible hit-and-run and a person lying in a parking lot — and found Williams shortly after 11 p.m., bleeding from a gunshot wound and pronounced dead at the scene despite lifesaving efforts.

Detectives say Williams had been involved in a physical altercation with several men in the parking lot before a gun was produced and fired. Those men left the scene after the shooting. Motive remains unknown and no arrests have been announced. Officers treated the area as a homicide scene, canvassed for witnesses and sought video, while investigators urged anyone with information to contact the Fresno Police Department homicide unit or submit anonymous tips to Crime Stoppers.

Does anyone who was in the McKinley and Marks area that night recall seeing a disturbance or have video that could help move this case forward?