{"id":164173,"date":"2026-02-04T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164173\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:06:08","slug":"2-men-arrested-in-fresnos-first-homicide-of-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164173\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men arrested in Fresno&#8217;s first homicide of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; 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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The video above is from an earlier story and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/19-year-old-man-shot-killed-central-fresno-identified\/18480385\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">19-year-old man shot and killed in central Fresno identified<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting happened just after 9 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, at a strip mall on Dakota and Hughes avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was taken to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rodriguez was just nine days shy of his 20th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Detectives are still asking for the public&#8217;s help with information about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/18542821_020426-kfsn-dig-Central-Fresno-187-arrests-Joe-Rodriguez-tn.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/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<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Two men have been arrested for the murder of 19-year-old Joe Rodriguez last month.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[79433,79432,112,114,113,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-164173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-79433","9":"tag-2-men-arrested-in-fresnos-first-homicide-of-2026","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164173","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=164173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}