{"id":233531,"date":"2026-03-24T02:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/233531\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T02:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T02:53:16","slug":"man-killed-after-downtown-fresno-warehouse-party-idd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/233531\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed after downtown Fresno warehouse party ID\u2019d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have identified the man <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315137524.html\">killed<\/a> Friday night after attending a party in downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno police chief Mindy Casto identified the victim as Meharie Kidane, 38.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred near Fulton and Inyo streets in the Brewery District around 11 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Casto said a party was being held at Sun Stereo Warehouse that evening. The event was advertised on social media and sold about 600 tickets, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say security guards broke up the party after a fight started. The shooting occurred after people poured out onto the street. Kidane was taken to a hospital and died.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can contact Detective Carr at 559-621-2445 or Detective Baroni at 559-621-2516. They can also contact Valley Crime Stoppers at 559-498-7867.<\/p>\n<p>                                              <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Meharie Kidane photo.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"745\" title=\"Meharie Kidane photo.jpg\" alt=\"Meharie Kidane, 38, was killed following a downtown Fresno party Friday night.\"\/>                                                                                    Meharie Kidane, 38, was killed following a downtown Fresno party Friday night.                                                                                                                                                                        FRESNO POLICE DEPARTMENT                                                                                        <\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published March 23, 2026 at 3:25 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have identified the man killed Friday night after attending a party in downtown Fresno. Fresno police chief&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[17774,112,114,113,5686,105793,135,63466],"class_list":["post-233531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-downtown-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-killing","tag-meharie-kidane","tag-shooting","tag-sun-stereo-warehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233531","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=233531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}