A 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday after police said he was involved in an assault and was found carrying an unserialized handgun.

Fresno police officers responded to the 4700 block of East Kings Canyon Road after receiving a report that four individuals were assaulting a man.

The victim told officers he was sitting alongside a building when four suspects approached him and began yelling. The victim said he could not understand what they were saying because of a language barrier.

According to police, two of the suspects punched the victim. During the confrontation, one suspect stood over the victim, removed a handgun from his waistband and racked the firearm.

Additional officers arrived and located four people matching the suspects’ descriptions. All four were detained.

Police said Demarco Keeling, 25, resisted officers while being detained, and force was used to place him in handcuffs.

After Keeling was handcuffed, officers searched a shoulder bag he was wearing and found an unserialized handgun.

Keeling was booked into the Fresno County Jail. The other three suspects were booked into the Juvenile Justice Campus.

According to Fresno County Jail records, Keeling was booked on suspicion of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, assault with a firearm, carrying a loaded firearm in public, possessing a firearm despite a prohibition on ownership or possession, possessing a firearm without identification markings, and obstructing a public officer.

Online jail records showed total bail set at $205,000.

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