{"id":136942,"date":"2026-01-17T00:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:05:28","slug":"2-arrested-in-ceres-shooting-investigation-that-left-man-dead-another-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/136942\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested in Ceres shooting investigation that left man dead, another wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were arrested for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/ceres-fatal-shooting-riverpark-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting in Ceres<\/a> that left one man dead and another wounded in early December, police said on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred along Riverpark Drive around 2 a.m. on Dec. 3, when a group of people gathered at Riverview Park, and they were confronted by a group of men in a vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s when several shots were fired, leading to two men being shot, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man who died was identified as 20-year-old Zocario Benjamin Munoz. A 26-year-old man was shot multiple times and was taken to a hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, police identified Oshua Cervantes and Josue Lopez as the suspects in the shooting. Four search warrants were served on Thursday at several homes in Stanislaus County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cervantes was arrested for the murder of Munoz, police said, and Lopez was arrested for the attempted murder of the other victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ceres-arrests.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"ceres-arrests.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Oshua Cervantes (left) and Josue Lopez (right) were arrested in connection with a shooting at Riverview Park in Ceres, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Ceres Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Police said in December that there were early indications that the shooting may have been gang-related.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were arrested for a shooting in Ceres that left one man dead and another wounded in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[32526,134,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-136942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-ceres-news","tag-homicide","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136942","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=136942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}