2023 Goshen shooting

On January 16, 2023, six people were killed in a shooting at a house in Goshen, California, an unincorporated community in Tulare County. The victims were Rosa Parraz, 72; Eladio Parraz Jr., 52; Jennifer Analla, 50; Marcos Parraz, 19; Alissa Parraz, 16; and her ten-month-old son, Nycholas Parraz. Three other people inside the property survived uninjured. According to the Wikipedia account of the case, the shooting occurred just before 3:40 a.m., and deputies arrived roughly seven minutes after the first 911 call. They found Alissa and Nycholas Parraz dead outside the home and four other victims dead inside. Surveillance footage reportedly showed Alissa Parraz attempting to save her infant son by placing him over a fence moments before both were shot. Five of the six victims were shot in the head; the sixth was shot in the torso and legs. Investigators said at least two shooters were involved.

A week before the killings, a search warrant had been executed at the same house. The Tulare County Sheriff's Office said deputies found drugs, ammunition and weapons there, and Eladio Parraz was arrested and later released on bail as a result.

Of the three survivors, one was the person who called 911; upon hearing gunfire down the hallway, that person lay on the floor, braced their feet against a door, and pretended to be dead while a shooter reportedly rattled the door handle before moving on. Two other survivors were found hiding in a trailer near where one victim was shot.

In the days following the shooting, investigators served three additional search warrants in the Goshen area targeting known gang members, and searched cells at five prisons connected to the same gang. A reward for information, initially $10,000, was raised to $25,000. Officers identified eight suspects, issued eighteen arrest warrants, and recovered six firearms; two members of a gang described as rivals of the Parraz family were arrested during the operation.

On February 3, 2023, Noah Beard and Angel Uriarte were arrested and charged with the murders. Both pleaded not guilty and are being held without bail; if convicted they could face life imprisonment without parole or the death penalty. Uriarte separately faces federal charges — assault on a federal officer involving a weapon, discharging a firearm during a violent crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm — stemming from a shootout with ATF agents during his arrest.

In the aftermath, Shayne Maupin, the father of the infant victim Nycholas Parraz, filed a lawsuit against members of Tulare County Child Welfare Services and the Tulare County Sheriff's Office, alleging that child-welfare officials had placed Nycholas into the Goshen household — where both parents were minors — despite known gang activity, and that the Sheriff's Office failed to act on prior warning signs to protect the young mother and child.