{"id":208332,"date":"2026-03-07T02:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208332\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T02:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T02:28:14","slug":"witnesses-run-as-man-opens-fire-in-central-fresno-health-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208332\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses run as man opens fire in central Fresno health clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One day after a brazen shooting inside a Family Health Center Clinic in Central Fresno, exclusive video obtained by Action News shows the horror unfolding in real time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Security footage from a nearby business shows three people running out of the clinic and into the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They are just one of the four dozen people police estimate were inside at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of those witnesses, Maria Nava, said &#8220;I saw a lot of people with their kids, we were on the floor yelling, &#8216;Run! Run!, get down! There&#8217;s a shooter!.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Employees and patients rushed to get to safety, Nava says one of them helped her and her son find a way out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There was a nurse in front of us, she opened the door for us and we were able to get out through the back,&#8221; Nava said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This terrifying moment is believed to be seconds after police say 69-year-old Bounlab Thammavong opened fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Less than five minutes later, the first group of Fresno Police officers arrive on scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The newly obtained video captured the moment they surrounding the door as witnesses gathered around, before eventually making their way inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was then that officers would find the victim, a female employee in her 30&#8217;s, suffering from several gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She was rushed to Community Regional Medical Center, where she remains in critical, but stable, condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Police took Thammavong into custody at the scene and recovered the gun used inside the exam room where they say the shooting took place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thammavong faces four felony charges with a bail set at more than $1.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after a brazen shooting inside a Family Health Center Clinic in Central Fresno, exclusive video obtained&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8595,2392,112,114,113,3695,95530,96037],"class_list":["post-208332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-action-news","tag-central-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-maria-nava","tag-nearby-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208332","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=208332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}