{"id":341940,"date":"2026-06-01T21:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341940\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:22:11","slug":"fresno-police-arrest-man-in-canal-homicide-seek-missing-assault-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341940\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Police Arrest Man in Canal Homicide, Seek Missing Assault Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man has been arrested on murder and torture charges in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found in a canal earlier this month, the Fresno Police Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Police said that this is the eleventh murder of 2026.<\/p>\n

Officers responded at about 11:42 p.m. May 10 to the canal bank near Nielson and Hughes avenues after receiving a report of a woman in the water.<\/p>\n

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Officers arrived and removed the woman, who was identified as Georgiana McGhee, from the water. She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

\"FresnoFresno police are investigating the homicide of Georgiana McGhee, 50, after officers found her unconscious in a canal near Nielsen and Hughes avenues late Sunday, May 10, 2026, night. (Fresno PD)<\/p>\n

Following an autopsy on May 12, homicide detectives were notified that McGhee\u2019s death had been ruled a homicide, police said.<\/p>\n

During their investigation, detectives identified Boshay Ware, 48, as the suspect responsible for McGhee\u2019s death. Ware was booked into the Fresno County Jail on charges of murder and torture.<\/p>\n

Detectives also determined that a reported missing person, identified as Jerome Saldivar, 55, of Fresno, was assaulted by the suspect.<\/p>\n

Saldivar\u2019s whereabouts remain unknown, according to police.<\/p>\n

Got a Tip?<\/p>\n

Authorities are asking anyone with information about the case or the location of Saldivar to contact Fresno Police Department Homicide Detective A. Lopez at (559) 621-2443 or Detective J. Espinoza at (559) 621-2415.<\/p>\n

Anonymous tips may be submitted through Crime Stoppers at (559) 498-STOP (7867).<\/p>\n

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Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested on murder and torture charges in connection with the death of a woman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-341940","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\/341940","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=341940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}