Fresno man who attacked detective in police headquarters was in court that morning for felony charges: police

The Fresno Police Division recognized the suspect who was shot and killed by a detective after breaking into his workplace and allegedly assaulting him on Tuesday as Joseph Roy, a 24-year-old man who was in courtroom simply that morning on prices of assault with a lethal weapon and assault by means more likely to produce nice bodily harm. 

Roy allegedly used a “sharp object” and slashed on the detective, who then used his service weapon to shoot and kill Roy. 

The 24-year-old had pleaded responsible to assault by means more likely to produce nice bodily harm in a separate case and was set to be sentenced on Tuesday morning, however the listening to was delayed till April 12, a spokesperson for the district lawyer’s workplace stated. In that case, Roy attacked a person with a “blunt object” on June 17, 2021, in accordance with the charging doc. 

After the listening to on the Fresno County Courthouse on Tuesday morning, Roy made his method to the Fresno Police Division’s annex headquarters a couple of block away and broke in shortly earlier than midday, in accordance with police. 

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“In the course of the assault, Mr. Roy Grabbed some kind of a pointy object and commenced stabbing and slashing the aspect of the detective’s head and neck with it,” Lieutenant Invoice Dooley stated Wednesday. 

“Our detective grabbed his service weapon, fired, and ended the assault.” 

Roy allegedly broke into the Fresno Metropolis Corridor Annex, which the police division makes use of as a headquarters, after his courtroom date on Tuesday. 
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The detective, a 24-year veteran of the pressure who has not been recognized, sustained lacerations to his head and neck space. 

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He was transported to an area hospital for remedy and is now at residence recovering together with his household, Dooley stated. 

Except for the June 2021 assault, Roy was additionally arrested in 2018 on felony prices however was by no means convicted. The Fresno Police Division had contact with him two different occasions lately by which he was positioned underneath a psychological well being maintain. 

“We nonetheless have no idea why he did this. We have now not established what motivated him to particularly goal the Fresno Division, particularly goal our annex, and particularly goal that detective,” Dooley stated. “So far as we are able to inform, this was a random assault on our detective.”

Roy’s court-appointed lawyer declined to touch upon Wednesday.