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Five people were arrested on Sunday, April 29, after allegedly firing shots outside a fraternity event at Fresno State University.
According to Fresno police Lt. Michael Landon, four men and one woman showed up a Sigma Nu fundraiser at 2149 E. Shaw Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Police say that an argument ensued after fraternity members told the group they had not been invited and would not be let in through the screen door that led to the courtyard where the party was, Landon said.
Fraternity members had left the locked screen door and returned to the party when they heard two shots. The fraternity members discovered that the screen door had been shot. No one was hurt as a result of the shooting.
via The Collegian:
Sigma Nu President Nicholas Tregembo said the fraternity organization was hosting a charity event for the Autism Society of California by selling nachos. The event was hosted Saturday from 9 to 11:30 p.m. and was winding down when the shots were fired, he said Sunday.
Investigators believe the shooting happened when the group came to a security door in the back of the fraternity. Landon said some in the outside group spoke with someone on the other side. But after a short chat, and after not being allowed in, at least two shots were fired at the door in the direction of the home’s courtyard. Landon said the alleged crime appears to have been out of anger.
Landon added that the suspects live in the area where the shooting took place. By 2 a.m. Sunday, the police had located the four men and one woman along the 2100 block of Sierra Madre Avenue, but Landon could not say whether a gun was recovered. The suspects in question are in their mid-20s. Their names were not released. Nobody was injured as a result of the shooting. And Landon said that the fraternity members have been helpful in the investigation.
Tregembo said 18 people live at the fraternity home but at the time of the shooting, there were about 22. The organization had continued its philanthropic efforts Sunday by joining other organizations in a softball tournament. Tregembo said the organization hosts a charity event once per semester.
Officers found the five suspects — who were from the neighborhood and all in their 20s — about an hour later. They were arrested on scene.
That is all the information available at this time.
