FOWLER, Calif. (KFSN) — A man, a woman and multiple animals have been found dead inside a Fowler home.
Fowler Police Chief Greg Gularte says officers received a call for an assault with a deadly weapon at a home on Citrus and South avenues around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Gularte says the call came from a woman who claimed a family member told her, he “had shot mom, was going to shoot the dogs and shoot myself.”
When officers arrived at the home, they could not make contact with those inside, prompting a stand-off with police and Fresno County Sheriff’s Deputies.
A drone was later deployed to help authorities make entry into the home.
Gularte says officers then found an elderly woman, a middle-aged man and multiple animals dead inside the home. Both the man and the woman are related.
“It’s a small town. Everybody knows everybody. Many of my officers who were responding to the scene knew people in the neighborhood, so a little unsettling for them and the neighborhood,” Gularte said. “This is not a typical call for the Fowler Police Department.”
There is no confirmation on how the two family members and the animals died.
Gularte says this was an isolated incident, and the investigation will now be handed over to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office.
