{"id":337868,"date":"2026-05-29T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337868\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:04:10","slug":"fresno-police-arrest-man-after-alleged-assault-with-firearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337868\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Police Arrest Man After Alleged Assault With Firearm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday after police said he was involved in an assault and was found carrying an unserialized handgun.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno police officers responded to the 4700 block of East Kings Canyon Road after receiving a report that four individuals were assaulting a man.<\/p>\n<p>The victim told officers he was sitting alongside a building when four suspects approached him and began yelling. The victim said he could not understand what they were saying because of a language barrier.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280\u00d790-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GVWire-Ad-Get-our-mobile-app-1280x90-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"90\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to police, two of the suspects punched the victim. During the confrontation, one suspect stood over the victim, removed a handgun from his waistband and racked the firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Additional officers arrived and located four people matching the suspects\u2019 descriptions. All four were detained.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Demarco Keeling, 25, resisted officers while being detained, and force was used to place him in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>After Keeling was handcuffed, officers searched a shoulder bag he was wearing and found an unserialized handgun.<\/p>\n<p>Keeling was booked into the Fresno County Jail. The other three suspects were booked into the Juvenile Justice Campus.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fresno County Jail records, Keeling was booked on suspicion of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery, assault with a firearm, carrying a loaded firearm in public, possessing a firearm despite a prohibition on ownership or possession, possessing a firearm without identification markings, and obstructing a public officer.<\/p>\n<p>Online jail records showed total bail set at $205,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old man was arrested Thursday after police said he was involved in an assault and was found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-337868","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\/337868","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=337868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}