{"id":208433,"date":"2026-03-07T03:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208433\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T03:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:43:14","slug":"arrest-made-in-death-of-72-year-old-man-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/208433\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made in Death of 72-year-old Man in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014 Fresno police say they have arrested 53-year-old Lemual Wheatley for allegedly killing 72-year-old Leon Conway in Central Fresno back on February 12.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to do a welfare check at an apartment complex near First Street and Dayton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors had said they hadn\u2019t seen or heard from Conway for multiple days.<\/p>\n<p>Officers forced themselves into the apartment and found Conway dead inside.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators discovered that Conway and Wheatley knew each other and had a fight on January 31.<\/p>\n<p>The fight escalated, and that\u2019s when Wheatley allegedly physically assaulted Conway, causing blunt force trauma to his body, killing him.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Fresno police located Wheatley near Bardell and Kaviland avenues in Southeast Fresno and arrested him for an unrelated warrant.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, homicide detectives then charged Wheatley with Conway\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014 Fresno police say they have arrested 53-year-old Lemual Wheatley for allegedly killing 72-year-old Leon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-208433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208433","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=208433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}