{"id":214362,"date":"2026-03-11T05:29:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214362\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:29:26","slug":"man-sentenced-for-2021-shooting-death-in-central-fresno-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214362\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for 2021 shooting death in Central Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After almost 5 years, Edward Lemos learned his punishment for the 2021 shooting death of 36-year-old Ralph Rivas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;As of today, the total aggregate term is 26 years,&#8221; Fresno County Superior Court judge John Vogt said in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Police say Lemos shot and killed Rivas near Franklin and Broadway in Central Fresno in September of 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators say the two men had a brief exchange before Lemos pulled out a gun and opened fire on Rivas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rivas was taken to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lemos stood with no expression before a Fresno County judge on Tuesday as he was handed down that lengthy 26-year sentence for his crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Probation shall be denied, sir, and you are committed to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation,&#8221; Judge Vogt said to Lemos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lemos was previously charged with murder in the case, but pled no contest to voluntary manslaughter in a stipulated deal worked out with his defense and the District Attorney&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Mr. Lemos is going to agree to pay the restitution for the funeral expenses,&#8221; his defense attorney said to the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The no-contest plea means Lemos accepts the conviction of the crime without admitting guilt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With the time Lemos has already served, he will spend close to 20 years behind bars to finish out his sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For news and weather updates, follow Tiffany Olin on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TiffanyABC30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Facebook&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TiffanyABC30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;X&quot;}\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tiffanyolin_\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Instagram;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Instagram&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After almost 5 years, Edward Lemos learned his punishment for the 2021 shooting death of 36-year-old Ralph Rivas.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[98350,112,7348,114,113,3695,98351,98349],"class_list":["post-214362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-edward-lemos","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county-superior-court","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-john-vogt","tag-ralph-rivas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214362","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=214362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}