{"id":234719,"date":"2026-03-24T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234719\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:44:08","slug":"2-teens-dead-1-injured-in-targeted-fresno-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234719\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teens dead, 1 injured in targeted Fresno shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deadly burst of gunfire shattered a quiet Northeast Fresno neighborhood early Monday, leaving two teenagers dead and two others wounded in yet another bout of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/24\/us-news\/wild-bar-brawl-spills-on-to-west-hollywood-street-as-jersey-clad-combatants-caught-on-camera\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California violence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A group of four teens who were seemingly targeted and ambushed around 1:30 a.m. near San Jose and 4th Streets\u2013a stones throw from a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/10\/us-news\/classmates-are-searching-for-answers-and-a-community-is-in-mourning-after-a-fresno-high-school-student-on-monday-collapsed-in-gym-glass-and-later-died\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">local high school<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were returning from eating from a couple area restaurants to their friend\u2019s house, who lived in the neighborhood, when it appears the shooting occurred,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/27\/us-news\/bullet-in-the-cap-fresno-police-share-body-cam-of-moment-officer-narrowly-escapes-a-gunshot-to-the-head\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Police<\/a> Chief Mindy Casto said in a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Two 15-year-olds killed in shooting in Northeast Fresno, police say. ABC30<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were returning from eating from a couple area restaurants to their friend\u2019s house, who lived in the neighborhood, when it appears the shooting occurred,\u201d Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto said in a press conference. ABC30<\/p>\n<p>Chief Casto characterized the shooting as a cold-blooded, intentional attack. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt resulted in the shooting death of two 15-year-old victims being fatally wounded,\u201d Casto said. \u201cOne 14-year-old was shot, originally in critical condition. It\u2019s now reported he\u2019s in stable condition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fourth teen was not struck by the gunfire. \u201cThere is gang involvement. Whether it was motivated, I don\u2019t know,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The deaths mark Fresno\u2019s 8th and 9th homicides of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for the California Morning Report newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCalifornia&#8217;s top news, sports and entertainment delivered to your inbox every day.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This time last year, authorities said that four murders had occurred\u2013a sobering reference point. ABC30<\/p>\n<p>This time last year, authorities said that four murders had occurred\u2013a sobering reference point. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives spent Monday scouring the scene for clues, but the shooters remain in the wind. Chief Casto noted that while a getaway vehicle was likely used, police don\u2019t have a description or surveillance images to release to the public yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deadly burst of gunfire shattered a quiet Northeast Fresno neighborhood early Monday, leaving two teenagers dead and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7,112,114,113,134,4182,15774,3586],"class_list":["post-234719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-homicide","tag-metro","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234719","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=234719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}