{"id":325258,"date":"2026-05-20T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325258\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T22:42:07","slug":"homicide-investigation-underway-after-woman-pulled-from-fresno-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325258\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation underway after woman pulled from Fresno canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman pulled from a canal in Fresno on Sunday, May 10, has been identified, and investigators say her death is now being treated as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Southwest Policing District officers were dispatched at 11:42 p.m. to a canal bank near Nielsen Avenue and Hughes Avenue after a report of a body in the water.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/man-pulled-from-pond-at-fresno-regional-sports-park-after-drowning-incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man pulled from pond at Fresno Regional Sports Park after drowning <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police arrived and immediately removed the unconscious woman, and officers and EMS personnel provided medical aid, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office completed an autopsy on May 12 and determined her cause of death was homicide.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was identified as 50-year-old Georgiana McGhee of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking for help from anyone who may have information related to the incident or McGhee\u2019s last known whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information can remain anonymous by contacting Crime Stoppers at (559) 498-STOP. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Tips can also be provided to Fresno Police Department homicide detectives J. Espinoza at (559) 621-2415 or A. Lopez at (559) 621-2443.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman pulled from a canal in Fresno on Sunday, May 10, has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-325258","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\/325258","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=325258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}