Officer kills young attacker at Roosevelt High

Anxious parents wait for students to be released from the main entrance of Roosevelt High School.







6:04 p.m.: The name of the Roosevelt High School sophomore shot and killed by a police officer was Jesse Carrizales, 17, family members said.





Carrizales was killed after he attacked a campus police officer with a baseball bat shortly before noon, police said. He died at the scene. Carrizales' sister, Elisa Ortega, 27, said detectives notified the family about 2:30 p.m. She said they asked detectives why they didn't use a Taser, a non-lethal device that immobilizes with an electric current. The detectives did not answer the question, Ortega said. Carrizales had started at Roosevelt High in January. Before that, he was being home-schooled, his sister said. Ortega said Carrizales had no history of violence and was not affiliated with a gang. He was the youngest of 11 children.





5:28 p.m.: Junus Perry, the Fresno police officer involved in the Roosevelt High School shooting, has been treated and released, a spokeswoman at Community Regional Medical Center said.





5:25 p.m.: About 3 p.m., Fresno Unified school officials notified parents of the shooting through the district's automated telephone system.





One message from Acting Superintendent Ruth Quinto went to all parents in the school district. Another message from Roosevelt Principal Loretta Aragon-Lopez went only to Roosevelt parents.








Resource officer
Junus Perry

n her message, Quinto said, "I am calling to inform you of a serious and tragic incident at Roosevelt High School. At noon today a student and a Fresno Police Department school officer were involved in an altercation that resulted unfortunately in the student being shot and killed by the officer. This was an isolated incident and all students and staff were safe. School psychologists and support staff will be on Roosevelt's campus as long as necessary to support our students and staff during this difficult time.



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Aragon-Lopez said: "I am calling to provide you with additional information about the tragic isolated incident that occurred at our school today. A Roosevelt student was shot and killed by a Fresno police officer following an altercation at our school. What is very important for our parents and community to know is that all of our students and staff were safe as we went into an immediate lockdown.



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The principal suggested that parents talk to their children about the incident.





After-school activities were canceled.





The school will resume a regular schedule Thursday, and additional school psychologists and other support staff will be available for students and staff, district spokesman Susan Bedi said.





2:13 p.m.: Adriana Sanchez, 19, said her sister, Angelica, a freshman at Roosevelt, was with the teenage attacker when the incident occurred.





"It was her best friend," Adriana Sanchez said.





Adriana said her sister was safe in the school gynmasium.





Police said the attacker was 6-foot-2 and 200 pounds.





The resource officer, identified by students as Junus Perry, is 38 and has been at the school for three years.











The officer sustained a two-inch gash on his head. He was taken to Community Medical Center for treatment.

Dyer said no students appeared to be in danger.

1:48 p.m.: The attacker, identified as a 17-year-old sophomore at Roosevelt High, was shot once by the officer, Police Chief Jerry Dyer said at a news conference outside the school.

The officer, described as a 10-year veteran of the Fresno force, was struck on the side of the head with a baseball bat, Dyer said. The bat was broken off at the handle, and the exposed end was covered with electrician's tape.

"It was obvious this bat had been modified to be a club or a weapon," Dyer said.

Dyer said the attack occurred just outside the resource officer's office. The officer fell backward from the blow, and the magazine of his primary handgun fell out as he hit the ground.

The student attacker approached the dazed officer, who then pulled out another weapon, attached to his ankle, and fired.

"Fortunately, this officer has a secondary weapon, and in this case, the weapon probably saved his life," Dyer said.

1:22 p.m.: A Fresno police officer who works at Roosevelt High School shot and killed a boy today who struck him in the back of the head with a baseball bat.

The incident occurred at 11:54 a.m. on the east side of Roosevelt High School campus near the basketball courts.

The school remained on lockdown until further notice as of 1:10 p.m., said a message over the school's intercom.

The officer, who was identified by students as Junus Perry, is employed by the police department as the school's resource officer, students said. Gardy Zuniga, 18, a senior at Roosevelt High, said her mother, resource teacher Adela Haro, watched the scene unfold from 10 feet away.

"She was walking her students back to class when she saw a boy push the officer and the officer shot the boy and the boy died at the scene," Zuniga said, retelling her mother's story. Zuniga said the boy had been in trouble recently.

Darius Bigby, 17, a Roosevelt senior, said a girl accompanying the boy had a baseball bat.

"When I heard the shooting I ran," Bigby said while waiting off campus.

Parents began arriving at the school shortly after noon.

One mother, Helen Mata, said her daughter, Racquel, said she did not see the shooting but called her mother.

"She said 'I'm OK, but come and get me," Helen Mata said.

1:15 p.m.: A news conference with Police Chief Jerry Dyer is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

1:08 p.m.: A Fresno police officer who works at Roosevelt High School shot and killed a boy Wednesday who struck him in the back of the head with a baseball bat.

The incident occurred at 11:54 a.m. at the Roosevelt High School campus.

The boy with the baseball bat, identified as a student, was shot and killed by the Fresno officer.

The officer, who was identified by the last name of Perry, is employed by the police department as the school's resource officer, students said.

12:10 p.m.: Fresno police and fire departments are responding to a report of a shooting at Roosevelt High School in southeast Fresno.

Details are sketchy, but Ken Shockley, public information officer for the Fire Department, said the initial report indicates there are two shooting victims at the school at Cedar and Tulare avenues.

The report came in shortly before noon.






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