{"id":343868,"date":"2026-06-03T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343868\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:22:16","slug":"smoke-shop-employee-shot-during-attempted-robbery-in-central-fresno-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/343868\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke shop employee shot during attempted robbery in central Fresno, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man is in the hospital after police say he was shot while working at a smoke shop in central Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened at the APH Smoke Shop on Belmont and 9th just before 4 am Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say the employee was working when two people tried robbing the store by demanding money, which led to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police found the employee inside the store with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was rushed to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say the suspects left the scene. No description of them has been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with more information is asked to contact Fresno police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in the hospital after police say he was shot while working at a smoke shop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2392,112,114,113,45959],"class_list":["post-343868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-central-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-smoke-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343868","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=343868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}