{"id":320944,"date":"2026-05-18T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320944\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T07:44:15","slug":"suspect-in-fresno-officer-shooting-suffers-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound-during-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320944\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in Fresno officer shooting suffers self-inflicted gunshot wound during standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315786479.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:suspected of shooting a police officer on Saturday;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;suspected of shooting a police officer on Saturday&quot;}\" class=\"link \">suspected of shooting a police officer on Saturday<\/a> sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff with police Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The standoff began about noon in the area of Bardell Avenue, just south of Vine Avenue, and ended just before 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto said the suspect took a patrol vehicle Saturday after firing at officers and drove to the location, where he was later found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Casto said investigators believe 56-year-old Paul Rodriguez Cisneros fired at SWAT officers again Sunday, then shot himself in the head after officers breached the home where he was holed up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cisneros was taken to Community Regional Medical Center for treatment. His condition was unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No officers returned fire Saturday or Sunday, Casto said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting began Saturday after a woman called police to report her husband was threatening to shoot her, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two officers responded and were met with gunfire, Casto said. Multiple rounds struck one officer, who was later released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Casto said the woman and her daughter are safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If Cisneros survives, he will be booked on suspicion of attempted murder of a police officer and domestic violence-related charges, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to call police at 559-621-7000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man suspected of shooting a police officer on Saturday sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1701,112,114,113,13116,2325,10031],"class_list":["post-320944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-community-regional-medical-center","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-mindy-casto","tag-police-officer","tag-swat-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320944","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=320944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}