Shooting victim crashes truck into Clovis home while mom, 2 kids sleep

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- A driver crashed into a Clovis apartment after being shot Saturday morning. His truck came close to hitting a mother and her two children.

The apartment near Minnewawa and 9th wasn't built with a breezeway. But Saturday morning, wind blew past the buckled beams that were once cemented by walls.

Nieko Kumataka and her two boys were sleeping when a truck came barreling through the home.

"Oh I knew it was a car. This is a fear of living right here," said Kumakata.

She stumbled out of the home just as Juan Uribe and his son were driving home from work. They were the first to pull over and save the boys from the wreckage.

"There was dust everywhere, but she started screaming, 'My kids are in the house; there's kids in the house.' And so when we heard that we ran into the house," said Uribe.

Meanwhile, the unidentified driver had crashed into five other parked cars and ran across the street. He came back a short while later covered in blood, asking for medical help.

"During that disturbance at Minnewawa and Shaw he had been shot by a subject and was fleeing that when he was involved in this collision," said Sgt. Jim Koch with the Clovis Police Department.

The driver was allegedly robbed and shot when he confronted the three suspects, and police say he was a victim himself -- a tragic chain of events that could've destroyed more than a home.

"Where the car went in there were boys sleeping there, and I had put them in bed about 11:30 last night. But if they were still there, they probably wouldn't be here," said Kumataka.

The driver has since had surgery and is going to live, but his condition beyond that is still unknown.

Police haven't caught any of the suspects in the shooting, but they are looking for a white four-door sedan.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the Clovis Police Department at (559) 324-2800.