{"id":327293,"date":"2026-05-22T04:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/327293\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T04:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:18:18","slug":"update-suspect-in-fresno-officer-shooting-dies-in-hospital-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/327293\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Suspect in Fresno officer shooting dies in hospital, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man accused of firing shots at two officers, wounding one, on Saturday before shooting himself a day later has died, according to the Fresno Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police in an update said 56-year-old Paul Rodriguez Cisneros of Fresno died from the injury Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said Cisneros had been in custody and in the hospital since May 17 after he was found to have a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The gun that he used to shoot himself was recovered when he was arrested and taken to Community Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cisneros was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315792818.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:suspected of shooting at two police officers;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;suspected of shooting at two police officers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">suspected of shooting at two police officers<\/a> after they responded to a domestic violence call near Jensen Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, where a woman reported that her husband was going to shoot her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The officer was shot in the shoulder and arm and taken to a hospital. He has since been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police later learned Cisneros took off in a patrol vehicle and went to the area of Bardell Avenue, just south of Vine Avenue. The standoff ended just before 5 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of firing shots at two officers, wounding one, on Saturday before shooting himself a day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[135990,1701,112,114,113,1057,134214],"class_list":["post-327293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-cisneros","tag-community-regional-medical-center","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police-department","tag-paul-rodriguez-cisneros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327293","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=327293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}