On January 17, 2024, at about 1:00 p.m., officers responded to a ShotSpotter activation near Lee Street and Lorena Avenue in southwest Fresno and found 24-year-old Taeshawn Johnson with a gunshot wound. Johnson was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, where medical personnel pronounced him deceased.

Homicide detectives identified 44-year-old Alfred Samuels as the primary suspect. A search warrant at Samuels’ residence recovered evidence investigators say is pertinent to the case, and Samuels was arrested and booked into Fresno County Jail on murder charges. Police say Johnson had argued with someone before the shooting and that the argument escalated into the fatal encounter. The investigation remains active and authorities are asking anyone with information to contact Fresno Police Department Homicide Detectives or Crime Stoppers.

Did anyone in the area see or hear anything around Lee Street and Lorena Avenue that afternoon?