{"id":326998,"date":"2026-05-22T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326998\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:28:07","slug":"man-accused-of-shooting-at-fresno-officers-last-weekend-dies-in-hospital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/326998\/","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) \u2014\u00a0The 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\u2019 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0The man accused of shooting at Fresno Police this past weekend has died from his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-326998","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\/326998","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=326998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}