{"id":305180,"date":"2026-05-08T00:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305180\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T00:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T00:59:11","slug":"12-year-old-boy-injured-in-fatal-moped-crash-in-northwest-fresno-has-leg-amputated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305180\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old boy injured in fatal moped crash in northwest Fresno has leg amputated"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KFSN<\/p>\n

Friday, May 8, 2026 12:21AM<\/p>\n

\"12-year-old<\/p>\n

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Action News has learned more about the injuries a 12-year-old suffered while riding his moped that was hit by a vehicle in northwest Fresno.<\/p>\n

That collision killed his 13-year-old cousin, Dominiq Puentes, who was also on the scooter.<\/p>\n

The two boys were hit by a truck on May 1<\/a> at Bullard and Palm Avenues.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Parents of teen killed in crash while riding moped scooter speak out<\/a><\/p>\n

The mother of 12-year-old Jay Garcia says Jay suffered severe injuries, resulting in his lower leg being amputated.<\/p>\n

While he remains in the hospital, his family has created a GoFundMe page for medical expenses and therapy costs.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to help, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, May 8, 2026 12:21AM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — Action News has learned more about the injuries a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[128558,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-305180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-128558","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305180","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=305180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}