{"id":236569,"date":"2026-03-25T23:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236569\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:09:24","slug":"suspect-in-deadly-sacramento-shooting-on-waterwheel-drive-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236569\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in deadly Sacramento shooting on Waterwheel Drive arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Sacramento man has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting that happened earlier this month, officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Police Department said Laron Fort, 44, was identified as the suspect in a deadly shooting on Waterwheel Drive, just off Truxel Road between West El Camino Avenue and Garden Highway in South Natomas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SacPolice\/status\/2036931143581524195?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fort has since been taken into custody<\/a> and was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on homicide-related charges.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the shooting along Waterwheel Drive just after 2 a.m. on March 15 and found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to an area hospital, where he later died. The identity of the victim has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento man has been arrested in connection with a deadly shooting that happened earlier this month, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,135],"class_list":["post-236569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236569","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=236569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}