Woman shot in southeast Fresno home, police investigate possible link to nearby gunfire

Gunfire that police say began in the street sent bullets into a southeast Fresno home early Thursday, leaving a woman hospitalized and detectives trying to determine whether another burst of shots nearby was part of the same episode. Officers were called to Grove and Holloway around 2:30 a.m., and shell casings were visible in the roadway.

Police said the woman was inside the house when she was struck multiple times from the road. Several other people were inside the home at the time, but none of them were hit. The victim was rushed to the hospital, and a later update said she was shot three times and was in stable condition.

Investigators also examined a separate scene near Eugenia and Backer, where shots were fired but no one was injured. Detectives are working to determine whether the two shootings are connected, and the overlap has left open the possibility of a wider stretch of gunfire in a residential pocket of southeast Fresno rather than a single isolated burst.

The location puts the danger squarely on neighbors who may never step outside. In this case, police said the bullets came from the road and into the home, a detail that points to immediate risk for families inside nearby houses as well as anyone in the street when the shooting started. Residents were told to avoid the area while investigators collected evidence and followed up on the scenes.

The case also lands against a broader backdrop of violence in Fresno. The Fresno Police Department’s 2023 annual report counted 366 shootings in the city in 2023, down from 449 in 2022, while murders fell from 60 to 35 over the same period. Even with those declines, shootings in residential neighborhoods remain a sharp concern for southeast Fresno, where a burst of gunfire can move from the street into a home in seconds and leave detectives sorting out who fired, why, and whether anyone else was caught in the line of fire.