{"id":121261,"date":"2026-01-05T21:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121261\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:14:12","slug":"93-year-old-california-man-said-he-killed-his-wife-then-called-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121261\/","title":{"rendered":"93-year-old California man said he killed his wife, then called police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 93-year-old California man is behind bars after allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/03\/us-news\/simi-valley-couple-murdered-by-son-who-later-set-himself-on-fire-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gunning down<\/a> his wife in a parking lot and calling the cops to turn himself in.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hocking, a nonagenarian in Fremont, called dispatchers with a chilling admission \u2014 claiming he had just <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/19\/us-news\/california-parents-decapitated-2-kids-forced-younger-ones-to-look-at-their-mangled-bodies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pulled the trigger<\/a> on his 86-year-old spouse in\u00a0 a 12:22 a.m. phone call Saturday \u2014 according to the Fremont Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Responding officers rushed to the 5000 block of Mowry Avenue, where they found the elderly suspect and the victim in the front passenger seat, who was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Cops recovered a firearm from the vehicle and whisked Hocking away into <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/14\/us-news\/2-dead-at-rob-reiners-la-home-lapds-robbery-homicide-division-respond\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">custody for homicide<\/a> and a gun related enhancement. While Hocking gave a statement to detectives \u201carticulating the reasoning behind the incident,\u201d tight-lipped officials have not yet released a motive for the late-night slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 93-year-old California man is behind bars after allegedly gunning down his wife in a parking lot and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,8947,101,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-121261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-murders","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}