{"id":334097,"date":"2026-05-27T06:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334097\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T06:51:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T06:51:33","slug":"27-year-old-suspect-arrested-for-shooting-in-fresnos-tower-district-identified-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334097\/","title":{"rendered":"27-year-old suspect arrested for shooting in Fresno&#8217;s Tower District identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect who was arrested in connection to a shooting in Fresno&#8217;s Tower District has been identified as 27-year-old Charles Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities say he was one of the suspects who quickly left the scene in a vehicle after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/bullet-could-hit-witness-reflects-023430438.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:&#039;That bullet could have hit me:&#039; Witness reflects after man shot in Tower District;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;&#039;That bullet could have hit me&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;That bullet could have hit me:&#8217; Witness reflects after man shot in Tower District<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fresno Police say a fight broke out around 12:30 a.m. Sunday on Olive and Linden avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One witness told Action News he saw a black van drive by just before hearing the gunshots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 32-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken to the hospital, where he has already been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say a woman was also injured due to being trampled from the chaotic scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Fresno police helicopter followed the suspected vehicle to Kona Avenue and Beck Avenue, where authorities say the suspects got out and ran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 19-year-old and a 16-year-old were arrested along with Muhammad, who had prior felony charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Muhammad was identified as the shooter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Clovis Police confirmed he was one of four men their department arrested for a gang-related shooting, which <a href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/winco-store-parking-lot-shooting-suspects-arrested\/14737064\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Action News covered outside a Clovis WinCo in April 2024;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;Action News covered outside a Clovis WinCo in April 2024&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Action News covered outside a Clovis WinCo in April 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His charges then included assault with a deadly weapon and felony child endangerment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Court records show he pleaded no contest to his charges and was on probation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But after Sunday&#8217;s shooting, he is back behind bars in the Fresno County Jail, now facing several felony charges, including assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The suspect who was arrested in connection to a shooting in Fresno&#8217;s Tower District has been identified as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[8595,4885,112,114,113,3695],"class_list":["post-334097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-action-news","tag-felony-charges","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334097","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=334097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}