{"id":226220,"date":"2026-03-19T01:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226220\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T01:38:10","slug":"jury-finds-malik-nichols-guilty-of-murder-in-2023-fresno-double-shooting-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/226220\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds Malik Nichols guilty of murder in 2023 Fresno double shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 19, 2026 12:28AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jury finds Malik Nichols guilty of murder in 2023 Fresno double shooting\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A jury has found Malik Nichols guilty in a 2023 double shooting that killed 43-year-old Ibrahim Muhammad in Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nichols was found guilty on six counts Wednesday afternoon, including murder, attempted murder and assault with Semi-automatic firearms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was accused of shooting Muhammad and a 57-year-old woman in southwest Fresno. Muhammad died, just 25 minutes after dropping his wife off at work. The female victim survived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Prosecutors have called it a gang-related retaliation for a killing that happened months earlier and said there was a $10,000 bounty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The jury will now deliberate on Monday for the gang enchancement and Special Circumstance allegation on the murder count.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with ABC30 for the latest details on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, March 19, 2026 12:28AM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A jury has found Malik Nichols guilty in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[103005,112,114,113,102309,294],"class_list":["post-226220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-103005","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-jury-to-decide-fate-of-man-accused-in-2023-murder","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226220","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=226220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}