On the afternoon of January 22, 2026, officers responded to a disturbance near Normal Avenue and Mayfair Drive in Fresno and found 25-year-old Tamika Hoy face down in an alley with severe head trauma. She was taken to Community Regional Medical Center and died of her injuries on January 25, 2026. Detectives later determined she had been shot.

Investigators say Hoy was walking through the alley when she was approached by an unknown number of people and that a disturbance involving multiple individuals occurred just before the shooting. Her family says she often walked that route from her parents’ home to a favorite eatery near McKinley and Normal Avenues and had made the trip many times without incident.

The Fresno Police Department is treating the case as a homicide. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been reported. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers.