On November 17, 2022, Amanda Berry was shot and killed on the lawn of her Fresno County home by Dennis Happawana (32). Several weeks later on December 6, Happawana was killed in a confrontation with deputies at his parents’ home.
With weeks to investigate the murder and the confrontation, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office has drawn a clearer picture of how their paths crossed and the escalation to December 6, 2022.
The Murderer of Amanda Berry Believed In Aliens and Anti-Government Conspiracies According to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office
There were some clues left by Happawana who shot Berry around midnight, according to a witness who heard the shot. When he arrived home after the shooting, Amanda Berry’s boyfriend noticed telephone company technicians repairing a tower next to their home.
When he asked about the repairs, the engineers said that someone damaged the tower around midnight and caused an outage in the area.
During their search of the area, deputies found a note near the tower that was written in red ink. According to the sheriff’s office, the note was an anti-government rant.
However, it did give them a motive for the damage to the cellphone tower with 5G and that the tower was important to the aliens that were tracking him.
Surveillance footage showed a man using a tool to damage conduits on the tower during the time of the shooting. On December 6, deputies pretty much ran into Happawana by chance after reports of a man shooting at a police cruiser with a rifle came in at roughly 2 AM.
He was found just two miles from where Amanda Berry was killed and retreated into his parents’ house after the shooting.
Deputies breached the house an hour later and came across two people who had hidden in a room and barricaded the door. A smell of gasoline was reported as well. As it would turn out, Dennis Happawana had a gas tank nearby and had damaged a larger tank on the family’s property.
When cornered by deputies, Happawana was armed with two knives and had an AR-10 with reaching distance. After the man refused to heed the deputies’ orders and the beanbag rounds didn’t hinder him, he was shot and killed.
It wasn’t until searching the house for evidence that the missing pieces in the murder of Amanda Berry fell into place.
In a separate building on the family’s property, authorities found handwritten notes in red ink—similar to the one found at the cellphone tower—and ballistics testing matched the casings from Berry’s murder with a handgun found among Happawana’s belongings. Both guns were identified as “ghost guns” or guns made with parts that don’t have serial numbers.
According to the suspect’s parents, Happawana was in a constant downward spiral mentally following a car wreck injury 10 years earlier. It grew from paranoia and refusing treatment or medication to delusions and eventually death.
Authorities believe that while Happawana was vandalizing the cell tower, Berry was alerted to the commotion and went to investigate. That’s when she was shot and killed by Happawana.
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