{"id":164154,"date":"2026-02-04T21:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164154\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:54:07","slug":"2-men-arrested-in-fresnos-first-homicide-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164154\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men arrested in Fresno&#8217;s first homicide of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two men have been arrested for the murder of 19-year-old Joe Rodriguez last month. It was Fresno&#8217;s first homicide for 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The video above is from an earlier story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Police announced that 21-year-old Isiah Mobley and 19-year-old Gavin Vasquez were taken into custody on Tuesday and booked into the Fresno County Jail on murder charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/19-old-man-shot-killed-011805823.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:19-year-old man shot and killed in central Fresno identified;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">19-year-old man shot and killed in central Fresno identified<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting happened just after 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at a strip mall on Dakota and Hughes avenues.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say a fight had broken out that then quickly escalated to gunfire. Responding officers later found Rodriguez with multiple gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was taken to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rodriguez was just nine days shy of his 20th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives are still asking for the public&#8217;s help with information about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Fresno Police announced Wednesday 21-year-old Isiah Mobley (left) and 19-year-old Gavin Vasquez were arrested for the murder of 19-year-old Joe Rodriguez in central Fresno.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6087372b8f625c186c77bfce5eadbc95.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fresno Police announced Wednesday 21-year-old Isiah Mobley (left) and 19-year-old Gavin Vasquez were arrested for the murder of 19-year-old Joe Rodriguez in central Fresno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been arrested for the murder of 19-year-old Joe Rodriguez last month. It was Fresno&#8217;s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,4071,114,113,3695,79430,79429,74690],"class_list":{"0":"post-164154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-county-jail","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-fresno-police","13":"tag-gavin-vasquez","14":"tag-isiah-mobley","15":"tag-joe-rodriguez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164154","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=164154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}