{"id":255116,"date":"2026-04-07T04:01:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255116\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:01:37","slug":"2-drown-including-child-in-fresno-canal-after-suspected-hit-run-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/255116\/","title":{"rendered":"2 drown, including child, in Fresno canal after suspected hit-run, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315320105.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UPDATE: Mother, child killed in suspected DUI crash into canal identified;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;UPDATE&quot;}\" class=\"link \">UPDATE: Mother, child killed in suspected DUI crash into canal identified<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A woman and a child drowned in a Fresno canal early Monday after their vehicle crashed into the water following a suspected hit-and-run collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In an update Monday morning, police confirmed a second victim, approximately 9 years old, had been found in the canal about two miles from the initial scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first victim, a woman, was found shortly after officers responded to East McKinley Avenue and Fresno Street around 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When they arrived, they found an unoccupied vehicle in the middle of McKinley. It\u2019s suspected of being involved in the crash, Fresno Police Lt. Michael Pierce said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A second vehicle was discovered in the canal on the south side of McKinley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Crews from the Fresno Fire Department responded with multiple units, including water rescue teams. They pulled a woman from the submerged vehicle and immediately began CPR, Pierce said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She was taken to a hospital in severely critical condition but later died, police confirmed Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pierce said the Collision Reconstruction Unit is investigating the incident and the area was closed to traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Fire Chief Billy Alcorn said they were notified that a child was with the driver. Alcorn said his swim and dive team started south and worked their way north where they found the child in the canal near H Street and Palm Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A woman who spoke to The Bee said her brother was driving to work at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to her, her brother reported that the suspect vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed, causing the victim to veer off the roadway and into the canal. He provided dashcam footage to investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman picked up her brother since his vehicle was in the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Fresno police at 559-621-7000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Mother, child killed in suspected DUI crash into canal identified A woman and a child drowned in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,3695,96972],"class_list":{"0":"post-255116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news","11":"tag-fresno-police","12":"tag-michael-pierce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255116","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=255116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}