Residents of a Fontana neighborhood have been unsettled by a string of fiery attacks on homes, which prompted an arrest earlier this week. Fontana police apprehended 29-year-old Bernard Gonzalez-Soberanis, believed to have fired a flare gun at a residence, an episode caught on surveillance footage. The arrest followed an incident where Gonzalez-Soberanis was allegedly spotted riding a bicycle and shooting a flare gun into a home, CBS Los Angeles reported.
The Gonzalez family had been targeted previously on October 18, when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at their home around midnight. This attack, followed by the flare gun shooting on November 15, has raised concerns about the safety of the neighborhood. Celeste Gonzalez, a resident of the attacked home, shared that their house’s proximity to a major street led her to initially consider the Molotov cocktail incident a “fluke,” as she described in an ABC7 interview. However, the repeated nature of the incidents signaled a sinister pattern.
According to surveillance video reviewed by Celeste Gonzalez, the initial Molotov cocktail luckily did not spread due to a wet backyard, but the second attack with the flare could have had more dire consequences given the proximity to where she was seated. “It was very loud. There was a flash of red. I was sitting in the living room when this happened, so with the angle of it, if they had shot at closer range, they would have shot basically where I was sitting,” Gonzalez stated. In addition to her home, another nearby residence was similarly targeted…