{"id":306955,"date":"2026-05-09T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/306955\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:30:08","slug":"detectives-seek-to-upgrade-charges-to-murder-after-fresno-stabbing-victim-dies-days-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/306955\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectives seek to upgrade charges to murder after Fresno stabbing victim dies days later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man who was stabbed near a Discount General Merchandise store in Fresno has died, and police say that they are working to change the suspect&#8217;s charges to murder.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers responded to a call on April 28th, where a man was reported to have been stabbed in the area of B Street at around 5:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, they found 58-year-old Leonardo Alejo unresponsive and suffering from an apparent stab wound.<\/p>\n<p>Alejo was transported to Community Regional Medical Center for treatment of his injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested 32-year-old Jose Moreno in connection with the stabbing on the same day for attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>However, Alejo has been reported to have died from his injuries on May 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Police say that homicide detectives are working with the district attorney&#8217;s office to change the charges to murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man who was stabbed near a Discount General Merchandise store in Fresno has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-306955","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\/306955","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=306955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}