{"id":218287,"date":"2026-03-13T16:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218287\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:09:18","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-connection-to-shooting-near-va-hospital-in-central-fresno-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218287\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in connection to shooting near VA hospital in central Fresno, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A suspect connected to a shooting in central Fresno is in police custody as they continue to search for the other suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It started after 9 pm Thursday in front of the VA Hospital on Clinton near Fresno Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers arrived to find a man suffering from a gunshot wound to his lower body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One shell casing was found in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say two suspects took off on foot and ran across the street. We&#8217;re told one of the two had a handgun.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After an extensive search of the area, one suspect was found and arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers are still searching for the second suspect at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was taken to Community Regional Medical Center and is expected to be okay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the victim had no business with the VA Hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s unclear what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect connected to a shooting in central Fresno is in police custody as they continue to search&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2392,1701,112,114,113,12293,97938,99860],"class_list":["post-218287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-central-fresno","tag-community-regional-medical-center","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-police-custody","tag-shell-casing","tag-the-va-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218287","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=218287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}