{"id":261665,"date":"2026-04-10T21:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261665\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:19:07","slug":"man-who-shot-two-correctional-officers-at-fresno-county-jail-dies-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261665\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who shot two correctional officers at Fresno County Jail dies in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The man who shot two correctional officers at the Fresno County Jail in 2016 has died in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Thong Vang was convicted of shooting  Officer Toamalama Scanlan and Officer Juanita Davila in the lobby of the jail on September 3, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Both unarmed officers were shot in the head and neck.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/officers-shot-in-fresno-county-jail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fresno County Jail now has armed officers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officer Toamalama Scanlan was left paralyzed and <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/correctional-officer-toamalama-scanlan-dies-at-46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">passed away in 2021<\/a> due to complications.<\/p>\n<p>While Officer Davila survived, she suffered severe, lasting injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Vang was <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/man-who-shot-fresno-deputies-sentenced-to-112-years-to-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">found guilty on April 27, 2018<\/a>, and sentenced to 112 years to life.<\/p>\n<p>While incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California, Vang passed away on March 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>His cause of death was not provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The man who shot two correctional officers at the Fresno County Jail in 2016&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-261665","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261665","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=261665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}