Fresno Police officers responded to Tyler Avenue and Bond Street for a report of a gunshot victim on Tuesday night.
Officers arrived and found 18-year-old Zoe Salinas in the passenger seat of a vehicle, suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics performed life-saving measures, but Salinas was pronounced deceased.
Homicide detectives learned that Salinas was in a dating relationship with 19-year-old Jose Gutierrez Contreras. Salinas and Contreras were seated in a vehicle and got into a heated argument. During the argument, Contreras shot Salinas and ran from the scene to a nearby residential neighborhood.
Fresno PD says officers quickly arrived in the area and eventually located and arrested Contreras, who was still armed with a semi-automatic handgun.
Contreras will be booked into the Fresno County Jail on one count of murder.
This is the first domestic violence-related murder of the year in Fresno, according to Fresno Police.
