Arturo Olivares was a 26-year-old Hispanic/Latino man whose death was reported as a murder in Fresno, California, on October 24, 2009. Publicly available cold-case records place the incident at 1104 S. Modoc Street in southwest Fresno and identify the Fresno Police Department as the investigating agency. The surviving online case information is sparse, but it establishes that Olivares' death was treated as a homicide and that the investigation did not produce a publicly identified offender.
Records compiled from homicide information gathered in cooperation with The Washington Post classify Olivares' case as unsolved. The available entry does not identify a suspect, weapon, or specific cause of death beyond listing the offense as murder. It also does not provide a known motive or describe the circumstances that led to the fatal violence. Because the suspect field remains listed as unknown, there is no reliable indication in the available records that investigators ever publicly named a person responsible for killing Olivares.
Contemporary Fresno reporting from the same weekend described police investigating a fatal shooting in southwest Fresno after a passerby discovered a wounded man shortly after midnight. Officers attempted CPR, and the victim was taken to Community Regional Medical Center, where he died a short time later. Police searched the surrounding neighborhood for evidence during the early morning hours. That report, however, did not identify the victim by name, and its reported location differs from the address listed in the cold-case database, so the available online evidence is insufficient to state definitively that the news report describes Olivares' killing.
No credible online source located for the case reports an arrest connected to Olivares' murder. Likewise, no suspect name, criminal charge, prosecution, trial, guilty plea, conviction, or sentence could be found that was reliably tied to his death. The cold-case record continues to characterize the homicide as unsolved and lists the suspect as unknown. As a result, there is no substantiated arrest or court history to report in connection with Olivares' killing, and the publicly available record leaves the central question of who killed him unanswered.
