Clovis police identify 18-year-old killed in late-night shooting

Clovis police identified Caleb Quick, 18, of Clovis as the victim in the late-night shooting outside the McDonald’s at Willow and Nees Avenues, where officers first found him in the parking lot just before 9 p.m. on April 23, 2025.

Quick was taken to a local hospital after officers and EMS rendered first aid at the scene, but he died overnight. The Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office confirmed his identity. Quick was a Clovis senior who was only weeks from graduating high school and had planned to join the United States Air Force after graduation.

In the first hours after the shooting, the suspect was last seen walking away with a handgun and wearing all black. Detectives and crime scene personnel worked the parking lot that night, while officers from the Fresno Police Department, Clovis Unified School District Police, the Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office, MAGEC and other local task forces searched the area. Investigators then spent the next day canvassing nearby streets, reviewing surveillance video, re-interviewing witnesses, writing search warrants and processing evidence.

Police later located and seized a white Tesla believed to have been used in the homicide. On May 9, 2025, Clovis police made two arrests in the killing. Both suspects were 16 years old.

By May 14, 2025, Fresno County prosecutors had started the process to try the teens as adults in juvenile court at Department 99A before Judge Amythest Freeman. The case was a murder prosecution.

Family and friends returned to the same parking lot on April 23, 2026, one year after the shooting, for a remembrance gathering. His father, Stephen Quick, said the community support had been astonishing.