One of the men accused of shooting six members of a Central California family ring had been involved in a “long history and enmity” with the circle of relatives and once shot one of them, according to police records received through the Times.
Shortly before 10 p. m. On August 6, 2014, Tulare County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a shooting at the Wooden Shoe RV park in Goshen. They Eladio Parraz with his arm around his girlfriend, Crystal Hammonds, crying hysterically, wrote an MP in a report.
Someone had shot Hammonds before fleeing in a white sedan with tinted windows, Parraz told lawmakers. Based on his description of the driver, Parraz said he believed the woman was related to someone he knew as “Nano,” according to another deputy’s report.
Parraz told the deputy that “his circle of relatives and the circle of relatives of ‘Nano’ have a long history and a long enmity. “The police knew “Nano” as Angel Uriarte and we decided that he shot Hammonds that night in 2014. Uriarte was eventually sentenced to prison for the shooting.
Eight and a half years later, Eladio Parraz, 52, the first user executed, according to authorities, when Uriarte and another man, Noah Beard, entered the Parraz family home on the night of Jan. 16.
After shooting Eladio Parraz, according to prosecutors, Uriarte and Beard killed 19-year-old Marcos Parraz; Jennifer Analla, 50; and Rosa Parraz, 72, who she shot in the head while she was kneeling by her bed. Alissa Parraz, 16, fled the home with her 10-month-old son, Nycholas, lifting the baby over a fence before climbing on herself. She beard chased them, killing them with a bullet to the head, according to prosecutors.
Uriarte shot federal agents seeking to arrest him last week, the government said. He underwent surgery after the shooting and is expected to survive. Beard was arrested without incident. Authorities now say Uriarte is known by the nickname “Nanu. “
Uriarte and Beard were charged with six counts of murder and a series of special indictments, adding homicides and committing homicides to publicize the activities of a street gang of criminals.
Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said last week that his investigators knew of no reason for the killings, beyond the fact that the relatives in Parraz’s circle were southerners — members of street gangs enslaved by the Mexican mafia founded on the crime — while the top gangs in the Visalia domain identify as Norteño. which means they serve Nuestra Familia, a criminal gang that rivals the Mexican mafia.
But the files filed in the Uriarte case in 2014 harbored a long-standing hatred of the Parraz family.
At the time of the last shooting, Eladio Parraz did not describe in detail the ill will between his circle of relatives and Uriarte’s and said he was “no longer involved in the dispute,” MP Kyle Kalender wrote, but said “his nephew, Martin Parraz, and ‘Nano’ did not get along.
Eladio Parraz said Hammonds was getting out of his nephew’s car, a white Dodge Neon, when gunshots rang out. “Eladio felt that whoever shot Crystal was looking for Martin,” Kalender wrote.
Martin Parraz did not die in last month’s shooting.
Crying and breathing heavily, Hammonds told Kalender he had returned from the RV park office, where he had showered, when a white car drove by. The driver, a Latina in her twenties, looked into her eyes, she said. The car continued about 30 feet down a dirt road and then stopped. The passenger’s back door opened.
Hammonds recalls seeing the state of “a tall, thin man” next to the car and hearing gunshots. She slipped in Martin Parraz’s car and felt rocks and dirt hitting her legs and “something hit her in the face,” Kalender wrote.
While examining the Dodge Neon, Kalender noticed two bullet holes in the rear fender and a bullet fragment under the silencer. package containing 20 grams of methamphetamine in the glove compartment.
MPs discovered bullet holes in a nearby caravan, whose horrified owner said his two young men fell asleep “just a few metres from where the bullets hit the caravan,” MP Kenneth Jones wrote.
That night, lawmakers stopped a white 2010 Dodge Avenger, which resembled the suspects’ car description, at an Arch in Goshen. affiliated with the “Goshen Familia” gang, Kalender wrote.
Uriarte had “GF” tattooed under his left eye, as well as “G-Town” and “559,” a central California domain code, on his left arm, Kalender wrote. He was wearing a red shirt, a red belt and red shoes with laces, according to the MP report.
Another man arrested at the Dodge Avenger, Victor Lopez, was wearing a red cap and red Jordan sneakers. The 17-year-old said he “hung out with northerners” but denied being part of a gang, Kalender wrote.
Northern gangs prefer the color red, while southerners identify with the color blue.
Law enforcement officials say a growing number of gangs in central and northern California, long considered the domain of the Nuestra Familia and Norteño gangs under the organization, now identify as southerners, meaning they get orders and pay “taxes” to Mexicans. Mafia.
At the gas station, the woman driving the car began to cry, wrote one of the lawmakers who responded to the shooting. Claiming she had “no idea this was going to happen,” Jasmine Reyes said she feared Uriarte would hear her speak to police, but still agreed to be questioned at the sheriff’s station, Jones wrote.
In an interview room, Reyes said he drank beer with Uriarte, Lopez and a woman, Catrina Jimenez, as they drove through Goshen. Because Jimenez was drunk, Reyes drove his Dodge Avenger.
Reyes said Uriarte told him to move to the trailer park wooden shoes. As he walked slowly through the rows of pickup trucks, Uriarte opened the door and walked out. The next thing he heard was 3 shots, he said. Uriarte was returned in the car. And he told him to leave.
On Highway 99, he yelled at Uriarte, “What are you doing?” means Uriarte and the family circle were having “problems,” according to the report.
Questioned at the sheriff’s station, Jimenez, the owner of the Dodge Avenger, insulted deputies and called the incident “nonsense,” Jones wrote in his report. it’s that it has to do with the Parraz family. “
Jimenez said Parraz’s circle of relatives “gets away with everything and the sheriff’s workplace does nothing to prosecute them,” Jones wrote. He claimed they “got what they deserved” because a member of Parraz’s circle of relatives ran over his father with a car, leaving him permanently disabled, according to the report.
Uriarte refused to be through the police.
In Arco, MPs made what is called a “presentation”, took the four suspects to Hammonds and asked if he identified them. Sitting in a patrol car, Hammonds began shaking and crying when he showed Uriarte, one lawmaker wrote. who shot me,” she said, adding that she is one hundred percent sure.
Uriarte questioned assaulting the woman with a gun and admitted to improving the gangs, according to court records. He served five years of a seven-year criminal sentence.
Questioned by an assistant prison probation officer, Uriarte said he had spent his entire life in Tulare County. He was unemployed and living with his fiancee, mother and five children in a small space about 99 in Goshen at the time of his arrest in 2014. .
The space, a shabby pink stucco, is part of a pocket of very tight spaces and caravans near the road, a set of railroad tracks and a giant commercial site. It’s just two blocks from the Harvest Avenue home where Parraz’s circle of relatives was killed last month.
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Matthew Ormseth is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Prior to joining The Times in 2018, he covered city news and state politics in the Hartford Courant.
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