{"id":228718,"date":"2026-03-20T16:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228718\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:08:22","slug":"man-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-apartment-complex-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228718\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with murder in fatal apartment complex shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Hernandez, 29, is in custody after an argument led to a fatal shooting in Sacramento County, the sheriff&#8217;s office reports. He faces murder charges.<\/p>\n<p>SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. \u2014 A 29-year-old man is in custody following a fatal shooting at an apartment complex in Sacramento County.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting was reported on the 4000 block of South Watt Avenue around 9:45 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies arrived, they found a 28-year-old man who had been shot. He was provided medical aid and was taken to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives took over the investigation and identified Ricardo Hernandez as the suspected shooter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said Hernandez had an argument with the victim outside the apartment complex that escalated into a physical fight, leading Hernandez to allegedly shoot the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities located and arrested Hernandez on Wednesday. He was booked into the Sacramento Main Jail on murder and felon in possession of a firearm charges.<\/p>\n<p>    ABC10: Watch, Download, Read<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ricardo Hernandez, 29, is in custody after an argument led to a fatal shooting in Sacramento County, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-228718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228718","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=228718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}