{"id":325169,"date":"2026-05-20T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325169\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T21:38:09","slug":"fresno-police-investigating-homicide-after-womans-body-found-in-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325169\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Police Investigating Homicide After Woman&#8217;s Body Found in Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old woman whose body was found in a canal on Sunday, May 10, and whose death was later ruled a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Southwest Policing District were dispatched at 11:42 p.m. to a canal bank near Nielsen and Hughes avenues after receiving a report of an adult woman in the water, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived and removed the unconscious woman from the canal. Police and emergency medical personnel attempted lifesaving measures, but the woman died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An autopsy completed Tuesday, May 12, by the Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner\u2019s Office determined the death was a homicide, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was identified as Georgiana McGhee, 50, of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Got a Tip?<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking anyone with information about the incident or McGhee\u2019s last known whereabouts to contact Fresno police homicide detectives J. Espinoza at (559) 621-2415 or A. Lopez at (559) 621-2443.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous tips can also be submitted to Crime Stoppers at (559) 498-STOP (7867).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno police are investigating the death of a 50-year-old woman whose body was found in a canal on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-325169","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\/325169","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=325169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}