{"id":326905,"date":"2026-05-21T23:25:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T23:25:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:25:50","slug":"man-accused-of-shooting-at-fresno-officers-last-weekend-dies-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326905\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of shooting at Fresno officers last weekend dies in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The man accused of shooting at Fresno Police this past weekend has died from his injuries in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Police announced the death of 56-year-old Paul Rodriguez Cisneros on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Cisneros was the suspect of a domestic violence incident that escalated into the attempted murder of two officers late last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say Cisneros&#8217; wife told officers he had threatened to shoot her, shortly before he fired at responding officers. One police officer was injured in the exchange of gunfire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Saturday night shooting led to an hours-long standoff that eventually ended with Cisneros nowhere to be found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto revealed on Sunday that he had left the initial crime scene Saturday night by driving away in a police patrol car as the wounded officer and a second officer took cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A manhunt ensued until Cisneros was found the next day at a home near Bardell and Vine avenues in southwest Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Cisneros would be taken into custody after he was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with ABC30 for the latest details on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The man accused of shooting at Fresno Police this past weekend has died from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[135888,5526,4749,134216,112,114,113,134213,90679,72094,134214,1387,294,134215],"class_list":["post-326905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-135888","tag-attempted-murder","tag-domestic-violence","tag-domestic-violence-threats","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police-shooting","tag-marjaree-mason-center","tag-officer-shot","tag-paul-rodriguez-cisneros","tag-police-investigation","tag-timely","tag-violent-crime-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326905","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=326905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}