No arrests yet in either of year's homicides

Clovis police on Monday remained silent on their investigation into Friday’s slaying at the Clovis Apartments, and still no arrests have been made in a May shooting death of Clovis’ Francisco Perez.

Ramon Rollings, 52, who died Friday from head injuries sustained in an altercation, and Perez are the city’s only two homicides reported this year.

Police on Monday declined to answer questions about the Rollings case and also declined to release the police incident report detailing what happened before Rollings was found on the north side of the apartments about 12:45 a.m. Friday.

City Attorney Dave Richards said the report could not be released because “any reports would contain information that could endanger persons, involve suspects that have not yet been charged with a crime, or might alert potential defendants / witnesses to coordinate stories.”

Police have said a man they’ve not identified was taken to Plains Regional Medical Center about the same time Rollings was killed. The man suffered a stab wound to his head, but police would not say if the incidents were related.

Curry County Sheriff Wesley Waller said that investigators are awaiting lab results from the Department of Public Safety Crime Laboratory regarding the Perez case while also following up on leads.

Deputies were dispatched to Plains Regional Medical Center during the early hours of May 1 in connection with the shooting death of Perez, 30, who had been brought to the hospital by private vehicle.

Officials said Perez was in a dispute with Dominic Carver, 24, of Clovis, who had allegedly borrowed Perez’s vehicle and failed to return it.

Carver was arrested on unrelated charges. No one has been charged with killing Perez.