FRESNO, Calif. — The Fresno Police department is searching for the suspect who opened fire and shot an officer in Southwest Fresno on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
56-year-old Paul Rodriguez Cisneros is the suspect in a domestic violence investigation and wanted for domestic violence charges including assault with a deadly weapon, with a vehicle, and criminal threats.<\/p>\n
Officers responded at about 6:30 p.m. to a neighborhood near East Garrett Avenue and South Clara Avenue regarding a domestic disturbance.<\/p>\n
Officers determined Cisneros as the suspect and confirmed he was in possession of an unknown caliber handgun.<\/p>\n
Later at night, at about 9:30 p.m. officers attempted to make contact with Cisneros and arrest him for the domestic violence charges.<\/p>\n
According to Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto, Cisneros fired his weapon as two officers got out of their patrol car.<\/p>\n
She confirmed that a 26-year-old Fresno police officer was shot multiple times in the arm and taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n
The second officer was okay.<\/p>\n
” He is doing remarkably well, and he has a warrior’s spirit 100 percent after what he went through.” said Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto.<\/p>\n
Police say officers used a BearCat vehicle to rescue the woman and an 8-year-old girl from the home.<\/p>\n
Investigators say Cisneros fled the scene and is currently at-large and is considered to be armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n
In addition to the domestic violence related charges, Cisneros is also wanted for attempt murder on a police officer, two charges of assault with a deadly weapon, two charges of resisting an executive officer, and a prior convicted person in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n
Information leading to an arrest may be eligible for $10,000 reward through Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n
Detectives ask anyone that knows where Cisneros might be to call 9-1-1.<\/p>\n
The community can contact Fresno Police Department – Homicide Detective R. Rockwell at 559-621-2448 or Detective Alejandro Lopez at 559-621-2407 with information related to this investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. — The Fresno Police department is searching for the suspect who opened fire and shot an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[133624,133623,112,114,113,3695,133622,236,4925,135],"class_list":["post-320225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-133624","tag-domestic-charges","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-man-wanted","tag-police","tag-reward","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320225","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=320225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}