{"id":323140,"date":"2026-05-19T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/323140\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:36:07","slug":"fresno-parolee-charged-with-murdering-two-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/323140\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Parolee Charged with Murdering Two Teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 Lelan Lee was arraigned Tuesday on two counts of murder and other felony charges following the shooting deaths of two 15-year-olds in northeast Fresno in late March.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested the 25-year-old after the teens were gunned down near Hoover High in the early morning hours of March 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>A 14-year old was also hit by gunfire but survived.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not revealed a motive in the killings.<\/p>\n<p>Lee is also facing charges of attempted murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle, shooting at an inhabited dwelling and possession of a firearm by a felon.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno man has two prior strikes and was on parole at the time of murders.\u00a0 If convicted, Lee faces life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County DA\u2019s office has not announced whether it will pursue capital punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, CA (KMJ)\u00a0 Lelan Lee was arraigned Tuesday on two counts of murder and other felony charges following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-323140","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\/323140","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=323140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}