{"id":228947,"date":"2026-03-20T19:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228947\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:15:18","slug":"38-year-old-man-shot-and-killed-in-southwest-fresno-identified-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/228947\/","title":{"rendered":"38-year-old man shot and killed in southwest Fresno identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man who was shot and killed in southwest Fresno Thursday night has been identified as 38-year-old Perry Paul Espinosa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened around 10 pm on East Samson between MLK Jr. Boulevard and Clara Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say they believe there was some sort of fight that led to gunfire and ended with Espinosa being shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities are still searching the neighborhood and hoping to find witnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This was the 6th homicide in Fresno so far in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with more information is asked to contact the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who was shot and killed in southwest Fresno Thursday night has been identified as 38-year-old Perry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,1057,104013],"class_list":["post-228947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police-department","tag-paul-espinosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228947","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=228947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}