{"id":326549,"date":"2026-05-21T18:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326549\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:54:22","slug":"man-arrested-for-murder-of-two-teens-attempted-murder-of-two-others-in-fresno-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326549\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for murder of two teens &#038; attempted murder of two others in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man has been arrested for the <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/fresno-police-investigate-shooting-that-killed-2-left-1-in-critical-condition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">murder of two teenage boys, and  the attempted murder of two others in Fresno back in March.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Police Department says on March 23, 2026, officers first responded to San Jose Avenue and Bond Street, near First Street and Barstow Avenue, 1:21 a.m. for reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found three teenagers who had been shot.<\/p>\n<p>One 15-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the scene, another 15-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital but was later pronounced dead, and a 14-year-old boy was taken to the hospital and was later released.<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old was also shot at, but was not hit.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives learned that all four teens were walking together when the shooting happened.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/judge-orders-alleged-getaway-driver-in-caleb-quick-murder-to-remain-in-juvenile-detention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Judge orders alleged getaway driver in Caleb Quick murder to remain in juvenile detention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives investigated and were able to identify the suspected shooter as 25-year-old Lelan Lee.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, May 14, 2026 Lee was arrested by the Street Violence Bureau Tactical Team.<\/p>\n<p>He is facing multiple charges including two counts of murder, and two counts of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any information about this shooting, you can contact the Fresno Police Department Homicide Detective A. Lopez at (559) 621-2443 or J. Espinoza at (559) 621- 2415. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous tips may also be provided through Crime Stoppers at (559) 498-STOP (7867). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A man has been arrested for the murder of two teenage boys, and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-326549","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\/326549","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=326549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}