{"id":287682,"date":"2026-04-27T04:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287682\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:56:22","slug":"victim-pistol-whipped-watch-stolen-in-fresno-restaurant-parking-lot-robbery-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287682\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim pistol-whipped, watch stolen in Fresno restaurant parking lot robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno Police is asking the public to identify three people involved in a robbery at a restaurant on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a restaurant in the area of North Willow and East Shepherd Avenue after reports of a robbery and a victim being assaulted a bit after 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>When the officer arrived, they found the victim in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim was assaulted by two unknown suspects, and his watch was stolen during the assault. <\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects pistol-whipped the victim during the robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Several witnesses tried to intervene, but police said the suspects brandished a firearm at them.<\/p>\n<p>After the robbery, two suspects fled northbound on Willow Avenue in a black Honda Accord. <\/p>\n<p>A third suspect remained inside the vehicle during the assault and fled with the other two suspects.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/crime\/child-kidnap-kidnapping-escape-little-girl-8-year-old-woman-arrested-fresno-police-officers-crime-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">8-year-old girl escapes kidnapping, runs to nearby home; woman arrested<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The victim suffered injuries to his head and upper body and was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the suspects\u2019 identities is asked to call the Fresno Police Department at 559-355-4625 or Crime Stoppers at 559-498-STOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Fresno Police is asking the public to identify three people involved in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-287682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287682","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=287682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}