{"id":307061,"date":"2026-05-09T02:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307061\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T02:53:18","slug":"sacramento-guard-shoots-2-suspected-burglars-killing-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/307061\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento guard shoots 2 suspected burglars, killing one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SAC gunshot fatality killed still chyron frame.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"Gunshot fatality\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating after one man was killed and another wounded Friday morning after a security guard opened fire during a reported burglary at a business in Sacramento\u2019s Florin Fruitridge Industrial Park.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded shortly after 4:30 a.m. to reports of a burglary in the 8500 block of Thys Court, according to Officer Anthony Gamble, a spokesperson for the Sacramento Police Department. Additional calls later reported gunfire in the area, he said.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found two suspected burglars suffering from at least one gunshot wound each, Gamble said. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was taken to a hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the security guard at the business fired the shots, Gamble said. The guard remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, Gamble said.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/315233098\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SAC_8021_CoreySchmidt_HA_260409.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Corey Schmidt\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/315233098\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Schmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Corey Schmidt is a watchdog reporter for the Sacramento Bee, focusing on Folsom, El Dorado Hills and Sacramento County\u2019s eastern suburbs. Previously, he was the government watchdog reporter for the St. Cloud Times in Minnesota. Schmidt received his bachelor\u2019s degree from DePaul University in Chicago and his master\u2019s degree from Yale University.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are investigating after one man was killed and another wounded Friday morning after a security guard opened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-307061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307061","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=307061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}