Detectives seek public's help in solving over year-long Kettleman City homicide

It was on Feb. 13, 2018, that deputies responded in Kettleman City to find a gunshot victim not breathing. Highway Patrol officers and Avenal Police Department officers also arrived on the scene at about 6:45 a.m. and discovered the subject, later identified as Armando Garza sitting in the driver’s seat of a vehicle.

Kings County Fire Department personnel arrived and pronounced Garza dead.

Kings County detectives took over the investigation and determined Garza had been shot multiple times while sitting in his vehicle by an unknown suspect(s). 

Detectives have new developments in the case and confirmed that members of the Norteno criminal street gang in Kettleman City were involved in the homicide.

Kings County law enforcement officials are asking that anyone with information is asked to call Detective Andrew Mazza at (559) 852-4647 or leave a message anonymously at (559) 852-4554.