Children missing after their mother was murdered
HANFORD, CA – An intense search is underway for two young girls, aged 3 and 2, after their mother was discovered dead from a gunshot wound in a community near Hanford. Authorities have issued an Amber Alert, suspecting the children’s father, 23-year-old Jonathan Alexis Maldonado-Cruz, in their disappearance. The grim discovery was made on Tuesday around 4 p.m. when deputies from the Kings County Sheriff’s Office responded to a welfare check in Home Garden, a …