{"id":342011,"date":"2026-06-01T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342011\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:12:08","slug":"man-arrested-after-woman-found-dead-near-fresno-canal-death-ruled-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/342011\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after woman found dead near Fresno canal, death ruled homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A call about a woman in the water near a Fresno canal ended with a homicide investigation and an arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the report around 11:45 p.m. on Sunday, May 10th, to a canal bank near Nielsen Avenue and Hughes Avenue.<\/p>\n<p> Officers arrived and immediately<a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/homicide-investigation-underway-after-woman-pulled-from-fresno-county-coroners-office-canal-nielsen-avenue-hughes-ems-personnel-crime-stoppers-georgiana-mcghee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> removed the woman, who was pronounced dead<\/a> at the scene by EMS.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was completed by the Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office two days later, and the cause of death was ruled a homicide. <\/p>\n<p>The victim was identified as 50-year-old Georgiana McGhee of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives identified 48-year-old Boshay Ware as the suspect in McGhee\u2019s death. <\/p>\n<p>Ware has been booked into the Fresno County Jail on charges of murder and torture.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives also determined that 55-year-old Jerome Saldivar of Fresno, who had been reported as a missing person, was assaulted by Ware. <\/p>\n<p>Police said Saldivar\u2019s whereabouts are unknown and asked the community for help locating him.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the case or Saldivar\u2019s location is urged to contact Fresno Police Department homicide Detective A. Lopez at (559) 621-2443 or J. Espinoza at (559) 621-2415. <\/p>\n<p>Anonymous tips can also be provided through Crime Stoppers at (559) 498-STOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A call about a woman in the water near a Fresno canal ended with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-342011","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\/342011","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=342011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}